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GARDEN OF HOTEL CAMAGUEY. 



THE CUBA RAILROAD. 



A T t t n r f c 
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MAP OF THE CUBA RAILROAD, 



This new line, completing the railroad connection between Havana and Santiago and Antilla, on the Bay of 
Nipe, is of standard gauge, and similar in its constructicn and equipment to the better class of northern, 
lines. All of its important bridges are of steel and masonry, and the line generally is rock-ballasted. The 
main line passes along the center of the eastern and wider half of Cuba, and opens up a matchless and 
most picturesque agricultural region, and passes through the tropical forests of mahogany, cedar, lignum, 
vita, ebony and many other trees, hung with vines and millions of orchids. Palm trees of magnificent 
aspect and great variety abound everywhere. The famed Parana and Guinea grasses, covering most of 
the open districts and standing from six to twelve feet high, and green the year round, together with fre- 
quent running streams, make this an ideal cattle country. No food has to be put up, and no shelter is. 
required. The rich soils everywhere are adapted to sugar, tobacco, cotton, corn and an endless variety of 
products. The swamps which occur at places along the coasts of Cuba are absent from the interior, whicl* 
is high, dry and exceptionally healthy. The trade winds blow across Cuba every day, and bring to all parts, 
fresh sea air; the extreme heat of northern summers is consequently unknown, and the humidity of otheir 
tropical countries is also unknown. 

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TOURIST ROUTES. 



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The Western Railway of Havana, Limited 




The Only Railway Company 

gra.r\ting free tr a. nspor taction for 
settlers and their household effects 



The picturesque route through the famous tobacco plantations 

of Vuelta Abajo^ 



Magnificent mountain scenery and tropical foliage. 



Excellent deer and bird shooting within easy reach of line. 
^ Comfortable coaches and good hotel accommodation. 



Round Trip from Havana to Pinar del Rio easilv made in 

one day. 



For full information and printed matter, apply to 
THE MANAGER, 

&Ae Western Railway of Havana 

HAVANA, CUBA 



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TOURIST ROUTES. 



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THE most delight- 
ful mountain re- 
gion in this country to 
spend your summer 
vacation is 



The Catskill Mountains 

with its pure air and wonderful 
variety of scenery unsurpassed any- 
where in the world. 

The Ulster & Delaware R* R, 

offers superb train service via the 
only standard guage and through 
car line to this popular resort. 



The Summer Book, with complete list of hotels 
and boarding houses, also map of the Catskill 
Mountain region, will be ready for distribution 
about May 1st, 1910, and will be sent to any 
address on receipt of eight cents postage :: :: 



N. A. SIMS, General Passenger Agent, 



Kingston, N. Y. 



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TOURIST ROUTES. 




Merchants and Miners 
Transportation Co. 

STEAMSHIP LINES 








BETWEEN 

Jacksonville, Savannah and Baltimore. 

Baltimore, Newport News, Norfolk and Boston. 

Philadelphia and Boston. 

Savannah and Philadephia. 

Baltimore, Newport News, Norfolk & Providence. 

Best Route to Northern and Eastern Points. 

Accommodations and cuisine unsurpassed. Through tickets on sale and 
baggage checked to all points. Ask your nearest ticket agent or address the 
Passenger Department for illustrated folder and further information. 

H. C. AVERY, Agent, Jacksonville, Florida 
JNO. F. WARD, Trav. Pass. Agent, Jacksonville, Florida 
Jacksonville City Ticket Office, Seminole Hotel 

W. p. TURNER, Passenger Traffic Manager 
GENERAL OFFICES, BALTIMORE, MD. 

"FINEST COASTWISE TRIPS IN THE WORLD" 

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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 



Ready Reference Guide. 

READY REFERENCE GUIDE. 

ST. AUGUSTINE. 

ST. AUGUSTINE is a well-equipped modern city. It has asphalt pavements, gas and 
electric lights, artesian water system, fire department, well-stocked markets and stores, 
elegant churches, an increasing number of residences, and palatial hotels which are 
famous the world over and on whose registers are written the names of more than 
50,000 guests every winter and spring. It is the fashionable winter resort of the United 
States. Visitors find every convenience and luxury. The town is renowned for its 
healthfulncss ; the climate is equable and has given lease of life to thousands who 
have come hither from the North and West. 

SITUATED on a narrow strip of land running north and south, the town has in front 
(on the east) the Mantanzas River or bay, and on the west the St. Sebastian River. 
Across the bay is Anastasia Island ; and beyond that — two miles distant — the ocean. 

RAILWAYS. All East Coast Railway trains leave from the Union Depot on Malaga 
street. 

MAILS. The post-ofiice is on St. George street, facing the Plaza. General delivery hours, 
8 A. M. to 6 P. M. 

TELEGRAPH OFFICES. Western Union— St. George street; Ponce de Leon; Alcazar. 
Postal — St. George street. 

EXPRESS. Southern Express Co.; office, Cathedral and Cordova streets. 

BANK. First National Bank, north side of Plaza. Hours, 9 A. M. to 2 P. M. 

JEFFERSON THEATER. Cathedral and Cordova streets. 

DO NOT FAIL TO VISIT THE 

Florida Ostrich Farm and "Zoo" 




MANY new and wonderful attractions. Band Concerts every mornini^ and after- 
noon; complete change of programme each week. "One price in- 
cludes all." We carry a magnificent assortment of Ostrich Feather Goods which 
we offer at Producers* prices. 

THE FLORIDA OSTRICH FARM, Jacksonville, Fla. 

TaJte Fairfield Car 

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Ready Reference Guide. 

CHURCHES. Baptist — Carrere and Sevilla streets. Episcopalian — Trinity Church, facing 
Plaza. Mctliuclist — Grace Church, Cordova and Carrere streets. Presbyterian — Me- 
morial Church. Valencia and Seville stree s. Roman Catholic — Catliedral. facing Plaza. 

PUBLIC LIBRARY, in Library Building. Hospital street and Artillery Lane. 

S rUDIOS. Valencia street, in the grounds of the Hotel Ponce de Leon. 

POINTS OF INTEREST. 

FORT iNIARION is open to the public through the day. '• 

THE CITY GATEWAY is at the head of St. George street. 

THE PLAZA, or Park, is in the center of the town. The Cathedral fronts on it. 

THE SLAVE MARKET, so called, on the Plaza, never was a s!ave market. 

OLD HOUSPi. An interesting old house to visit is Dodge's, on St. George street. 

HARBOR AND BEACHES. Small craft may be chartered for excursions. A bridge 
crosses the Matanzas Bay to Anastasia Island, which is thus rendered accessible by 
foot, carriage or wheel. An electric railway runs to lighthouse and sea beach. 

THE SEA-WALL was built by the United States Government in 1835-42. 

ST. FRANCIS BARRACKS, now disused, are at the south end of the Sea-Wall. Ad- 
jacent is the Military Cemetery, with the Dade monument. 

VEDDER .AIUSEU.M OF NATURAL HISTORY on Bay street, corner of Treasury 
street. 



= Steinw©Ly PioLiio 

KaS a reputation founded on the recorded judgment of the 
1/ world's greatest artists of two generations and the com- 
bined opinion of the most eminent musical and scientific 
experts. 

That these famous pianos occupy the highest place in the 
musical world for quality and volume of tone, sublety of touch, 
mechanism, durability — everything requisite to the perfect 
piano, is best attested by the fact that they may be found in 
every capital and court of the world, in famous concert halls, 
in palatial hotels, aboard of luxurious yachts, as well as nearly 
all of the great ocean steamships, and, last but not least, in 
more than a hundred thousand homes. 

The possession of a Steinway Piano puts the seal of supreme 
Miniature Grand. Price $800. approval upon the musical taste of its owner. 
Catalogue mailed on application. 

STEINWAY <a SONS 




STEINWAY HALL 

107-109 East 14th Street 



NEW YORK 



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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

OF ST. AUGUSTINE 

ST. AUGUSTINE, - - - FLORIDA 



Capital ..... $100,000 

SURPLUS AND PROFITS - - 300,000 

Average Deposits .... 850,000 

N. B.— This Bank is the LEADING BANK on the Roll of 
Honor of National Banks in the State of Florida, and is number 

NINETY-FIVE in the WHOLE UNITED STATES. 



TOURISTS 

Visiting FLORIDA and CUBA will find it to their interest to call on 

The First National Bank of St. Augustine 

Where they will be courteously received and may arrange for 
LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION 

To Banks in this State and in Cuba. 

SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES 

By the month at reasonable rates, thoroughly fire and 
burglar proof, in a steel vault of the latest pattern. 

CHECKING ACCOUNTS 

For their convenience while in the City or State. Neat 
Check Books furnished. 

Cashing Checks on New York and other points, receiving 
New, Clean, Crisp Bills therefor. 



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The Romantic Ocklawaha River '^LTr::\i!:Zno'iT''' 

SILVER SPRINGS— The Largest and Most Beautiful in the World 




The Hart Line Tourist Steamers 

(THE FORTY-THIRD SEASON) 
Exclusively for first-class passenger service. Frequented by the most eminent travelers. 

These staunch and unique tourist steamers, special'.y built for the pecuharities of this river, 
are ninety feet in length, have two saloon decks of light, airy and comfortable staterooms for 
fifty and sixty passengers, and are equipped with the modern appliances for safety and com- 
fort. The captains and pilots are of long service in this line. The table is first class. 

These trusty steamers, nearly free from vibration, glide smoothly over unruffled mirror 
waters in a narrow, winding course, through tropical jungles and picturesque river vistas, 
fringed with lilies and bordered by towering palms, entwined and festooned with flowering 
vines and with pendant, waving tresses of Spanish moss — a panorama of wild scenic beauty — 
past hills and orange groves visited by the passengers, thence for nine miles up the swift, 
shimmering Silver River of indescribable charm. In glass bottom rowboats, through deep, 
transparent waters of changing hues of blue, of emerald green, and other tints, one peers into 
the marvelous "bridal chamber" of the Springs with rapt amazement. The "Ladies' Parlor," 
"Smoking Room," "Jacob's Well," and the fossil boneyard excite emotion. The fantastic torch- 
light illumination of forest and river, unknown on any other tourist route in the world, is an 
impressive and mystical scene never to be forgotten. 

The Randall Orange Grove and Rose Garden and the hunters' hotel (adjacent to thou- 
sands of acres of wild hunting grounds), are visited by Hart Line passengers. 

On and after January lo, 1910, steamers leave Palatka Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 
at 12:30 noon, after arrival of trains from Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Miami and Tampa, ar- 
riving at Silver Springs before noon the next day. Returning, leave Silver Springs Tuesdays, 
Thursdays, Saturdays, at about i :40 P. M., or on arrival of S. A. L. R'y trains from Jack- 
sonville, Orlando, Tampa and Ocala, and A. C. L. R'y trains from St. Petersburg and Gulf 
Coast points, connecting at Ocala with carriages on smooth road, 6 miles, 40 minutes, or S. 
A. L. R'y train, to Silver Springs ; arriving at Palatka early the next morning, connecting 
with trains to all points. Daily Service resumed only after notice to all principal ticket agents. 

Other connections — Clyde, and Beach & Miller lines to and from Jacksonville and Sanford; 
G. S. & F. R'y to the Northwest. Passengers for the Ocklawaha River and Silver Springs via 
F. E. C. R'y change cars at East Palatka for Palatka. Northern tourists en route to or from 
South Florida, take the Hart Line steamers at Palatka or Silver Springs, as a delightful water- 
link in their journey. Round trip passengers have one and one-halt hours at Silver Springs. 
Dinner at time of leaving both Palatka and Silver Springs. Ladies assured every care and a 
pleasant and invigorating trip. (See Hart Line Booklets.) An extra wrap advised for observa- 
tion decks at night. Tickets include meals and stateroom berths. Stateroom berths reserved 
in advance by letter or telegram to R. W. Thompson, General Manager, Palatka, Florida, or 
to Mr. Foster at the Standard Guide Travel Oiifices: Jacksonville. St. Augustine, Daytona. 
Palm Beach and Miami. 

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Schools Recommended by Mr. Foster 

Full and complete information respecting the schools here listed, and others, may be had 
at Mr. Foster's Offices. A special department for providing such information is in charge of an 
assistant, who has personally visited the schools, and will give authentic, reliable and detailed 
information respecting them. Mail inquiries will receive every attention. 



Founded in 1880 



DAYTONA INSTITUTE - 

A school where pupils from the North may continue their home studies, and use their 

own books. Individual and class instruction. Coaching of pupils requiring special 

attention. College preparation. Mature students may pursue special studies. 

S. ELIZABETH STOEVER, Principal. 

No. 1 Seminole Block •;:::: DAYTONA, FLORIDA 




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Mrs. Palmer's School 

EUSTIS, FLORIDA 

A practical progressive school, skilled teachers and 
twentieth century methods of instruction. Consists of 
Kindergarten, Primary, and Grammar departments. 
An attractive school, well lighted, steam heated, with 
large screened porches and a fine lawn for a play- 
ground. Located in Florida's most healthful town, 
Eustis, noted for its pure drinking water. 

WRITE FOR BOOKLET 

MRS. CLARA D. PALMER, Principal 



The Finch Country and City Schools 

Country School, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. For Girls from twelve to 
sixteen. A simple, outdoor life. :: :: :: :: :: 

City School, 61 and 63 East 77th Street, New York City. 
For Girls seventeen to twenty. All of the advantages of the 
city with a course carefully planned to take the place of college. 



For catalogues, address 

Mrs. James Wells Finch, A.B., L.L.B., - - 

61 and 63 East 77th Street, New York City. 



Principal 



The Comstock School 



31 West 46th Street 



New York 



Miss Day and Mrs. Houghton, Principals 



Girls are graduated in both Latin and English courses. The certificate admits to the 
leading colleges. Superior advantages are offered to young ladies who have left school 
but who wish the opportunity to enjoy the many advantages that New York offers 
both educationally and socially. European travel. 



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SCHOOLS. 



CHEVY CHASE SEMINARY 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 




^ A home school for young ladies. College preparatory, special and finishing courses. Golf and 
other outdoor sports. Campus of eleven acres. Healthful location. Beautiful Chevy Chase, suburb 
of Washington. 

For catalogue, portfolio of views, circular of special information. Write to 
Mr, and Mrs. S. N. Barker, Principals, Lock Drawer 841, Washington, D. C. 



ACADEMY OF THE HOLY CROSS 

a select school for young ladies and children, is pre- 
pared to impart a thorough education to those wishing 
to enjoy the advantages of an Academic, a Musical or an 
Art Course under competent teachers. No pains are 
spared to secure the most approved methods of instruction, 
and to reach a high standard in all that constitutes 
cultured womanhood. Write to 



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ARMITAGE SCHOOL 

FOR GIRLS 
WAYNE, :: PENNSYLVANIA 

On the Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, one- 
half hour from Philadelphia. 

College Preparatory and Finishing Courses. Out-door 
Sports. Horseback riding. For Catalogue address 

MISS ARMITAGE 
Personal Wayne, Pa. 



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(EPISCOPAL) 

The Lane-Johnston Building 
Mt. St. Alban, Washington, D. C. 

A PREPARATORY SCHOOL OFFERING EXCEPTIONAL ADVANTAGES 
••-An American School for American "Boys" 

The faculty comprises college graduates of recognized ability ; the building is most modern in its 

appointments. Free instruction in music to boys of vocal ability. Boarding and day departments. 

For catalogue, address E. L. GREGG, Headmaster, Box 5. 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

The Right Rev. Alfred Harding, D. D., LL. D., President. 
The Rev. Randolph H. McKim. D. D., LL. D., Charles J. Bell, Esq. 

D. C. L. Thomas Hyde, Esq., Treasurer. 

Charles C. Glover. Esq. William C. Rives, M. D. 

John M. Wilson, LL. D., Brig. General, U. S. A. The Rev. William L. DeVries, Ph. D. 

The Hon. John A. Kasson. The Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, D. D. 

The Hon. George Truesdell. The Rev. Richard Pardee V/illiams 

George Dewey, Admiral, U. S. N. The Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D. D. 



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PHILADELPHIA 

A school especially intended for those who wish their sons cared for all day 
in a quiet part of the city, where an ample playground, a new gymnasium fully 
equipped, a modern school building and an experienced staff of men teachers 
are supplied. A country school within city limits. Illustrated Year Book- 

ALFRED C. ARNOLD, Headmaster 4224 Baltimore Avenue 



Miss Anable's Day and Boarding School for Girls 

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 

Sixty-second year.- Ideal home school. Located in center of city. 

Special advantages in Music, Art, English, French, German. Academic, 

Post-graduate, College Preparatory Courses, leading to diplomas. 

For catalogue and information address, 



MISS I. 

1350 Pine Street 



ANABLE 

Ptiiladelphia, Pa. 



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CLEVELAND, OHIO 




HoUenden 
Hotel 



800 ROOMS 



European Plan 
$1.50 to $5.00 



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SWISS STYLE MILK 
TRIAD 

SWISS STYLE MILK 
ALMONDS 



ORIGINAL 
DUTCH BITTER SWEETS 

CHOCOLATES EXTRAORDINARY 



WHITE CHERRIES 
IN MARASCHINO, 
CHOCOLATE DIPPED 




MILWAUKEE. 



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Florida^s Greatest Department Store 



IN THE HEART 
v/ OF 




Everything 

in 
Ready-to- Wear 

for Men, 
Women & Children 



The 
Largest 
and 
Best Assorted 
Stocks in the South 



TOURISTS VISITING THE CITY 

Will find us prepared to apparel them in correct style for their stay in this 
Southern climate. 

We cordially invite you to make our store your headquarters when in this 
city, and to have your mail addresed here. 



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Jackson ville Floral Compan y ^lt::f2ss' 

I ^ THE FLOWER SHOP ^i~| 

Choice Flowers Delivered Any Point in United State* 
Greenhouses and Nursery Evergreen Cemetery - - - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 

EASTMAN KODAKS 



Fresh Supplies and Prompt Attention 
to Orders for Developing and Printing 
Kodak Pictures :: :: :: :: :: 



Roll Films developed for 10 cents per roll by same workmen as our beautiful 



GIBSON BROS. 



FLORIDA VIEWS 

19 Main Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



SOUVENIRS AND CURIOS Tyler-Phelps Gift Shop Co. 

VISIT ^ I- r 

THOS. C. IMESON 



226 Hogan Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 

Alligator Goods Our Specialty 

Orange Blossom Perfume and Guava Jelly. Mail orders 
given careful attention. Ask for price list 



Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

Imported and Domestic 
Arts and Crafts "5 ^ 



Winter Season 
Daytona, Fla. 



Summer Season 
York Harbor. Me. 



^ W. H. GARDINER ^ 
Art Shop and Photo Studio ?^^1?S1 

Eastman Kodaks and Films ^ ^ Expert Developing and Finishing; 



Books. Stationery and Alligator 
Goods. Souvenir Post Cards . . 



Best Equipped Optical Department 
On the Florida East Coast 



GEO. H. CLARK 
JEWELER AND STATIONER 

Two Large Stores 124-126 S. Beach St. DAYTONA. FLA. 

Halifax Livery and Transfer Company 

JAMES RIX, Proprietor 

Carriages, Surreys, Phaetons, Top Buggies and Rubber Tired Runabouts. 'Busses 

Meet all Trains. Baggage Hauled 

Phone 120 DAYTONA. FLORIDA 



FOSTER COMPANY 



High Grade Men^s Outfitter & Ladies^ Shoes 

Cor. Beach Street and Orange Avenue, DAYTONA, FLORIDA 



M. ELLA DeVOY & COMPANY 
LADIES' HATTERS 



No. 6 South Beach Street 

Latest Styles 
High Class Goods 



DAYTONA 

Artistic Workmanship 
Low Prices 



Daytona 



E. L. SHEAR 



Steam 



PHONE No. 8 



Cor. Fairview Ave. 
and Beach Street 



Laundry 



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'"USINA'S HARDWARE STORE 



= DEALERS IN 



Crockery, Stoves, Hardware, 
Tinware, Ammunition, Etc, 

HARNESS AND SADDLES 

130-132 St. George St. Telephone 16 St. Augustine, Fla. 

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SfesfefSS DENTIST 



OFFICB AND RESIDENCE 
NORTH ST. GEORGE STREET, near the 
City Gates V ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA. 



Of Twenty -Five 

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CORNER OLIVE AND DATURA STREETS 

DRESSMAKING 

Dresses Furnished Complete. Hand Made Gowns. Hand Made Laces, Crochets, etc. 



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Dr. MARY STEELE EWING 

Graduate American School of Osteopathy 

OSTEOP ATHIC PHYSICIAN 

OFHCE 

Hotel Palm Beach - - . . Palm Beach, Fla 



J. B. WOFFORD 



Livery, Sale and Transfer Stable 

To all Points of Interest Automobiles for Hire 

333-335 Eleventh Street Phone 43 A MIAMI, FLORIDA 

If you want information, it is all right to ask Mr. Foster. But if you have anything to tell the 
people of Palatka and Putnam County, there is no better medium than the columns of 

THE PALATKA NEWS 

Published every Friday. Subscription, $ 1 .00 per year. Advertising rates given on application 

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HARDWARE 



We carry the largest stock in South Florida of General 
Hardware, Sporting Goods, Fishing Tackle, etc. 

KNIGHT (EJL WALL CO. 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



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Tampa, Fla. 



Dr. W. H. WALDO, Dentist 

PAINLESS SYSTEM 

All Work Absolutely Guaranteed 

Tampa Florida 

SE HABLA ESPANOL 



FOR CHARTER 

The Launch Eben Baldwin 

Equipped for a day's trip or a cruise 
Capt. FRED S. ALLEN 



Allen's Dock 



St. Augustine, Florida 



Mrs. Julia Marline 

MANICURE and CHIROPODY 

ELECTRIC MASSAGE 



Over Tibbetts 

Cor. Franklin and 

Lafayette Streets 



Phone 1786 

Tampa, Fla. 



Southern Automobile ®. Garage Co. 



312-514 Washington Street 

Phone 1497 Open all night 



Supplies, Repairs, Storage, Vulcanizing. All work guaranteed satisfactory. 
Distributors for Goodyear and Michelin Tires. Jobbers of supplies, etc. 

■ '" l^hnht>W' A uiomobile^ =^ 



FRED E. GILBERT 

Proprietor 



TAMPA. FLA. 



R. T. OVERMAN 
Secretary and Treasurer 



WING'S 



Tampa Steam Laundry 

and 
French Dry Cleaning 

Prompt Execution^ 

Guaranteed Satisfaction 

Prices Consistent 



Tampa, Fla. 



WHEN IN TAMPA CALL— Phone 26 

^ CITY TRANSFER COMPANY ^ 

Cabs, Drays and Autos for Hire 
803 TAMPA STREET - - - - Corner Polk 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 




GLEN SPRINGS 

Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake, New York 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR 




In the Heart of The Lake Country, on " The Scenic Tour " 
and "The Iroquois and Abenaki Trail". 

THE AMERICAN NAUHEIM 

The Glen Springs is a Health Resort combined with a Hotel of the highest class, and entirely free 
from all the distressing evidences of sickness usually found in Sanitariums. (No insanity, 
epilepsy, tuberculosis nor any contagious or offensive disease received.) 

Its valuable Medicinal Mineral Springs (our Nauheim Spring is one of the strongest Natural 
Brines known) ; its Thermal, Brine, Electrical, Radiant Heat and Light, and Nauheim Baths ; its 
complete Hydrotherapeutic, Mechanical and Electrical equipment for treatment of chronic diseases, 
all administered under the direction of experienced physicians ; together with its excellent service and 
cuisine, its modern appointments, home-like features and liberal management, place it in the front 
rank of Resorts for Health, Rest and Recreation. 

In the treatment of Rheumatism, Gout, Neuralgia, Diabetes, Digestive Disorders, Insomnia, 
Anaemia, Neurasthenia and Diseases of the Nervous System, Heart and Kidneys, we offer advan- 
tages unsurpassed in this country or in Europe. 

Location o-uerlookinsi thirty miles of Seneca Lake. Golf Links, 

Tennis Courts, Driuing, Boating, and Automobiling. 

For illustrated booklet and further information address, 

WM. E. LEFFINGWELL, President .... Watkins, N. Y. 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 











Travelers and Tourists 

who wish to keep in touch with the social life 
of the resorts on the 

East Coast of Florida 

or who would like to know about the social happenings in 

Havana 

Should purchase each week, a copy of 

PALM BEACH 

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Issued during the winter season by the 

R. 0. DAVIES PUBLISHING COMPANY 

Pailm Beach .... Florida 



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SCHOOLS. 



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CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY 

CHESTNUT HILL, Philadelphia County, Pa. A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS 

Incorporated in 1861 and reorganized in 1895 ; now established in the former Wissahickon Inn, perfect 
in modern appointments and admirably equipped for school work. .„.„„„„^., 

Head Master, J. L. PATTERSON 



Board of Trustees 



Rt. Rev. Ozi W. Whitakek, 

President 

Samuel F. Houston, 

Vice-President 

Dr. George Woodward 

Sec'y and Treas. 



James M. Beck 

Walton Cl.\rk 

Jacob S. Disston 

James Mapes Dodgb 

Fr.^ncis I. GOWEN 

J. Levering Jones 

Francis D. Lewis 

Randal Morgan 

Howard A. Kelly, M.D. 

James R. Sheffield 

GiFFORD Pinchot 
H. Gordon MfCoucH 



In 1909 out of 17 boys graduated, 14 entered college 
without conditions. The colleges were Harvard, Yale, 
Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford and 
U. S. Naval Academy. 

Physical training, under a competent instructor, in- 
cluding gymnastic work, field sports and out-door recrea- 
tion is required of every boy. The Recreation Building 
is a unique feature of the Chestnut Hill Academy. Under 
one roof are provided a large baseball cage, a room for 
tennis and basket ball, a squash court and a dressing 
room. The gymnasium, swimming pool and locker rooms 
.ire in a separate building. The swimming pool, 30 feet 
wide and 81 fret long, is one of the largest and hand- 
somest swimming pools in the East. The School has two 
athletic fields with a running track, and the tennis courts 
and cricket field of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, ad- 
joining the school grounds, are open free of charge, to 
all boarding pupils. 



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72d Street and West End Ave. - - New York 

LARGE light corner building overlooking Hudson River. Prepares boys for all leading 
Colleges and Scientific Schools. " Primary to College." Library and Gymnasium. 
Athletics under an experienced instructor. A thorough education, sound physical 
training, development of manly character. Small classes, individual instruction. Military drill 
(optional) at armory under an officer of the National Guard. Catalogue upon application. 



THE BERKELEY ANNEX: 



Primary and Junior Departments for Boys from 5 to 1 2 years 

No Home Study H*^«Hm«^tPr.; ^ EDWIN FOWLER, M.D. 

for Young Boys Meadmasters ^ j cLARK READ, A. M. 



YOUR BOY'S VACATION ? 



Camp Champlain 



SOLVES THE PROBLEM 



On Lake Champlain Fifteenth Year 

Rowing, swimming, land and water sports. Interesting mountain trips. Motor boat. Thorough physical 
examinations. Camp physician. Athletic trainer, in charge of college graduates. Tutoring. Long- 
distance telephone. Conducted under auspices of Berkeley School, New York. Illustrated booklet 
upon request. J. CLARK READ, A.M., Berkeley School, New York City 



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Medawisla Camp, on 
beautiful Sebago Lake, 
Maine, stands for the new 
idea in summer outings, 
which gives the boy an op- 
portunity to gratify his mnate 
love of nature — to row and 
paddle and swim, to cast 
the fly, to name the fishes 
and birds, flowers, plants 
and trees. The location 
is most beautiful. Every 
provision for health, safety 
and comfort ; experienced 
and capable management. Boys between 1 and 1 8 are eligible for ad- 
mission to the club. Correspondence is invited. Booklet on request. 

Dr. W. C. KENDALL 

1404 11th St., N. W. - - WASHINGTON, D. C. 

Jisl^ Mr. Foster about the Warwenoc\ Scouts 




■: HOME CAMP 1 

MEDAWISLA CLUB FOR BOYS 



The Commonwealth Avenue School for Girls 

(THE MISSES OILMAN'S SCHOOL) 

Offers thorough and systematic training in (1) A General Course for those not going to College. (2) College 
Preparatory Course. (3) Domestic Science, given at Simmons College. The Certificate of the School is accepted 
by Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke Colleges. Music under best masters in City is supplemented by 
attendance at Symphony Concerts and Opera. Out-of-door recreation is secured by walking, skating, boating ; 
gymnasium, fencing, riding when desired. 

MISS GUILD, MISS MUNGER, Principals 
324 Commonwealth Avenue :: :: BOSTON, MASS. 

LASELL SEMINARY FOR YOUNG WOMEN 




StronfT courses in all departments, including Music, Art, Elocution and Household Economics. Beautiful 
location, ten miles from Boston. For catalogue address, LASELL SEMINARY, Auburndale, Mass. 

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STANDARD GUIDE MAP OF ST, AUGUSTINE, 

. REFERENCES. 



1. St. George Hotel. 

2. Gateway. 

3. Plaza Market. 

4. Barracks. 

5. Post Office. 

6. Cordova. 

7. Ponce de Leon. 

8. Alcazar. 

9. Yacht Club. 

10. Vedder Museum. 
fi. Granada. 

12. Buckingham. 

13. Magnolia. 

14. City Building. 

15. Florida House. 

17. Methodist Church. 
First National Bank. 



18. Baptist Church. 

19. Presbyterian Church. 

20. Cathedral. 

21. Episcopalian Church. 

22. Jefferson Theater. 

23. Old Catholic Cemetery. 

24. Cemetery. 

25. St. Joseph's Convent. 

28. Court House. 

29. Golf Club. 

31. Spear Mansion. 

33. Villa Zorayda. 

34. Casino. 

36. Elk's Club. 

39. Court House. 

40. Marion. 



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€uba-JI Olimer Paradise 



Is the title of a 72-page 
profusely illustrated book- 
let describing delightful 
tours in Cuba. Mailed 
free on application to 



Passenger Department 

UNITED RAILWAYS OF HAVANA 

prado 61 Havana, Cuba 



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The Standard Guide 
FLORIDA 



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ONE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS 



ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA 

FOSTER & REYNOLDS 
Standard Gu:de Information Office 



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1910 



COPYRIGHT. IPIO, BY FOSTER & REYNOLDS. 



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The Park— St. Augustine 




CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

St. Augustine 7 

Memorial Church 12 

Gateway 12 

Plaza 15 

Cathedral 1^ 

Sea-wall 18 

Museum 20 

Fort Marion 23. 

St. Anastasia Island 27 

Matanzas 27 

Ponce de Leon 29. 

Jacksonville 37 

Ocklawaha River 38 

Ormond 38 

Daytona 43 

New Smyrna 53 

Rockledge 53, 

Indian River 54 

Lake Worth and Palm Beach 57 

Miami 69 

Bay Biscayne 72 

Seminoles 76 

Picturesque Nassau jj 

Tampa 83 

Other Florida Resorts 87 

On the Way Home 8(> 

Cuba gi 

The Railroad to Key West gj- 

Tarpon Fishing g4 

Fishing Among the Florida Keys g5 

Cast up on the Florida Shore g7 

Draining the Everglades 98 



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A LIST OF GOOD HOTELS 

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^^^K. Mr. Foster at the Standard Guide Information Offices in New York, 
Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Washington, Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, 
Palm H-'-t' Mi,.,.; T'.— u .-— . /^..o,.,„...... .. •• .. ;; 



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)nte Springs. 

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Camps 37, 

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Ol iiiuim. — 

Daytona. 1 



1. Scvilla 
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latanzas. 



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Daytona ticach. .'sew ht-asuie Inn 4; 

Indian River T ii c Stp imhn.its ,11 

Seabreeze. 

Rockledge.- 

De Land. 

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lulfport. 

louston. \i.i 

lew Orleans. Charles 84. 

French Lick. — ircjich Lick Springs in. 
San Antonio. — St .Anthony Si. 



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l\. G. A. iVletccr O7. 

Augu:;t nil in Tciiai-o 66. 

Atlanta.- I 
tarinm 71 
'.reenville.-Dttaray 70. 



Cocua 
Boynti I 
ilatka. 

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Maitlai 

Fin re 11 



Asheville. — .M.uhm (j.) 
Tryon Mimosa 64 

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Comfort Hotel Chamber 



Norfolk.- — 

Washington. - 

75. St. Jam 

ingliam 76. 

National 76. 

Hamilton "/"] . 
Williamsburg.- 



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Colonial Inn 



Natural Bridge ' nl Bi 

Atlantic City. -'9- Traymor. 

Galen liali j-i- 
New York City. 

covrr M.iitinii; 
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Chica^ 
Boston. I 
Pasadena. 

SUMMER RESORTS. 
Newport.- Piiiard Cott;iu< - iii 
Dansville. — Jackson II' 
Briarcliff Manor. — Piri.n 
Watkins Glen. — Glen Springs J I 
Saratoga Springs. — Publirity Cdi 

Adirondacks. ' 

White Mountc'M nit. Mount 

Washington, 1 ,1 ( 1 m m nn . ^' ' ' 

Canada. — Canadian Pacific 11 
\ , \\ •, 26. Tcniagami H- 

TOURIST ROUTES. 
T I Florida. 
Rail\va\ 
Hart Lniej » 
t. John's River I 1 

Ml,- 50. 

■or & Northern Ry 

. , ,, , f. Trans. Co. 

Florida and the North and West. 

\ir Line 18. 
oast Line 24a. 

ille R. R. -'1 
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Steamboat < 
20. 
^lyde Li: v Line U") 

tieen & > Route. 

Cuba and the West Indies. 

"ennv' ■•• ^' ' ' ■ 'dental SS < '" " 
Hand 1 Line 2- 

Roya; Packet < 

United l"ruit Co. 24b. 
Ward Line 109. 
The Cuba Railroad i. 
United Railway; of Havana \z 

Western 1" '>f Havana z 

(errera J^ ' Line- 106 



To Summer Resorts. 
iiid Railroad 22. 
lostun & Maine Railroad 29. 
Canadian Pacific Railway 27. 
rrand Trunk Railway System 26. 
Fkter & Delaware 3. 
^dorado & Southern Ry. Co. 

New York and New Orleans. 

Pacific SS. Co. 28 

Trans-Atlantic. 
Cunard Line 
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MISCLLLANEOUS 
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Pianos. 




Piano 17 




Silverware. Wat 


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Duntley Cleaner 

Educator Crackers 

Buckeye Nurseries. — 1 ainpa- 

FLORTTVA pn:AL ESTATE. 



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uipruvement 

liblcr 56. 
ren 104. 
ounty Board ot 



Jacksonville 

Co. - 
S:. Augu 
Dayton a. 
Palm Beach. 

Co. 103 
Miami. 
Tampa. 
Marion Coun 

Trade 105 

CUBA REAL ESTATE. 
Havana. Sni'ti Mnrin Company 87. 
Hen nd Co. 62. 

Cair. -land 106 

Nueva ocron < \niier 104(1, 

Ceballos. -D Cuba 1041 

SCHOOLS. 
Daytona Institute, Daytona, !■ 
Mrs. Palmer's School, Lnstis, 1' la., 8A. 
Finch Country and City School. New York. 

8A. 
Comstock School, New York, 8A. 
Chevy Chase Seminary. Washington, 8B. 
Academy of the Holy Cross. Washington, 

SB. 
National Cathedral School for Boys. 

Washington. 
Armitage School for Girls, Wayi 

8B. 
Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelpl 

sc, 

Berkeley School. New York, 8C. 
Medawisia Club for Boys, Sebag 

Me , HI). 

Commonwcfllth Avenue School for Girls, 

Hoston, 8D. 
Lasell Seminary for Young Women, 

.Auburndale, Mass., 8D. 



The reference numbers are io <he numbers at bottom of advertising pages. 
^sK. Mr. Foster for further information. 




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The old house on Hospital Street. 



Along the Seawall 





ST. AUGUSTINE. 



ORTIFICATION and defense were the first thought 
of the Spanish soldiers who founded St. Augustine ; 
and for three centuries the most significant feature 
of the town, which greeted the eye of the traveler as 
he entered the harbor, was the forbidding and por- 
tentous mass of Fort San Marco, set here to chal- 
lenge approach from sea. To-day, as the train 
emerges from the pines and palmettos, our first 
glimpse is of the towers of the great hotels, significant of welcome and hospitality. 
St. Augustine has become a fashionable winter resort, whose spacious hotels 
dominate the aspect of the surroundings, and in their luxury and magnificence 
have no equals in the world ; it is the winter Newport, whose visitors are numbered 
by tens of thousands, whose private residences are distinguished for elegance and 
comfort. Year by year the city grows more beautiful, and with each innovation 
and transformation adds to its attractiveness. The old has been supplanted by 
the new, yet the town preserves a distinctive character all its own, and there is 
now more than ever befcjre about the old city an indefinable charm which leads 
one's thoughts back to it again and gladdens the face that is once more turned 
toward Florida and St. Augustine. 

The distances here are not great. Fort Marion and the Gateway on the north, 
the sea-wall on the water front, the Plaza in the center, with its Cathedral, the 
narrow streets, and the Barracks on the south — these are the features of the old 
town in which we shall be interested, and all lie within the limit of a mile. The 
principal streets run north and south ; the cross streets at right angles east and 
west. The main thoroughfare. St. George street, extends through the center of 
the town to the City Gate ; from that point it is known as San Marco avenue 



THE STANDARD GUIDE. 



Treasury street, crossing St. 
George one block north of the 
Plaza, narrows at the east end 
to an alley, across which two 
persons may clasp hands. King 
street extends west from the 
Plaza to the St. Sebastian 
River. The narrow little 
streets, with their foreign 
names and foreign faces, their 
overhanging balconies and 
high garden walls, through 
whose open doors one caught 
glimpses of orange and fig and 
waving banana, were once 
among the quaint characteris- 
tics which made the old Flor- 
ida town charming and pecu- 
liar among all American cities. 
But the picturesque streets, of 
which tourists delighted to 
write, have almost ceased to be 
a pleasing feature of St. Augus- 
tine. Some have been wi- 
dened ; and others, shorn of 
their quaintness, are ill adapt- 
ed to the swelling trafftc. 

A portion of the native pop- 
ulation, distinguished by dark 
eyes and dark complexions, is 
composed of Minorcans. In 
1769. during the British occu- 
pation, a colony of Minorcans 
and Majorcans from the Ba- 
learic Islands, in the Mediter- 
ranean Sea, were brought to 
New Smyrna, on the Indian 
River, south of St. Augustine, 
by an English planter named 
Turnbull. They were i de- 
ceived by Turnbull and sub- 
jected to gross privations and 
cruelty, and at last deserted New Smyrna in a body, came to St, Augustine, were 




A BIT OF OLD ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 




TREASURY STREET. 
From Bay Street. 



defended against the claims 
of Turnbull, received an al- 
lotment of land in the town, 
built palmetto-thatched cot- 
tages, and remained here after 
the English emigrated. 

The Fort, the Gateway and 
the old houses are built of 
coouiNA (Spanish, signifying 
shellfish), a native rock found 
on Anastasia Island. It is 
composed of shells and shell 
fragments of great variety of 
form, color and size. Ages 
ago these were washed up in 
enormous quantities by the 
waves, just as masses of sim- 
ilar material are left now on 
the beach, where one may 
walk for miles through the 
loose fragments which under 
favorable conditions would 
in time form coquina stone. 
Cut off from the sea, the de- 
posits are in time partially 
dissolved by rain water and 
cemented together. 

The material of which the 
new hotels are built is a com- 
position of sand, Portland 
cement and shells. A wall is 
constructed of successive lay- 
ers of concrete ; as each layer 
hardens a new one is poured 
in on top of it. When com- 
pleted, the wall is one stone ; 
indeed, the entire wall con- 
struction of a concrete build- 
ing is one solid mass through- 
out — a monolith, with neither 
joint nor seam. The plastic 
material lends itself admira- 
bly to architectural and deco- 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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rative purposes, and possesses the very important qualities of durability and im- 
munity from destruction by fire. It was first employed in the Villa Zorayda, 
worthy of note because of the architectural design and the elaborate manner in 
which the owner-architect has successfully developed his plan of an oriental 
building as appropriate to the latitude of Florida. The architecture throughout 
is Moorish, after sketches and photographs in Spain, Tangier and Algiers. Above 



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the front entrance is the in- 
scription in Arabic letters : 
IV a la gJialib ilia Ha — "There 
is no conqnerer but God" — 
the motto which is every- 
where reproduced on the es- 
cutcheons and in the tracery 
of the Alhambra. 

The Memorial Presby- 
terian Church, erected in 
1889 by Mr. H. M. Flagler, 
is an elaborate structure, in 
the style of the V'enetian 
Renaissance, and in wealth 
of exterior decoration sur- 
passes any other building in 
St. Augustine. See page 28. 
Ancient landmarks are 
disappearing, but the pillars 
of the City Gateway re- 
main as notable monuments 
of the past. Inconsequen- 
tial as the towers now ap- 
pear, there was a time when 
they stood out bravely 
enough, and in their se- 
curity St. Augustine rejoiced. In those days they looked out upon a wilderness; 
the belated traveler hurried on to their shelter ; and the town slept securely when 
the Barrier Gate was fast shut against the midnight approach of a foe from with- 
out. Stoutly their walls gave their strength when it was needed, and defended for 
the King of Spain his garrison town in Florida. They have witnessed many a 
narrow escape and many a gallant rescue. More than once have they trembled 
with the shock of assault, and more than once driven back the foe repulsed. To- 
day, dismantled and useless, out of keeping with the customs of the day and the 
spirit of the age, long since left behind by the outstretching town, the picturesque 
old ruins linger as cherished landmarks. Here we are on historic ground. 

The gateway is the only conspicuous relic of the elaborate system of fortifica- 
tions which once defended St. Augustine. The town being on a narrow peninsula 
running south, an enemy could approach by land only from the north. Across 
this northern boundary, east and west, from water to water, ran lines of fortifica- 
tion, which efifectually barred approach. From the fort a deep ditch extended 
to the St. Sebastian ; and was defended by a high parapet, with redoubts and bat- 
teries. The ditch was flooded at high tide. Entrance to the town was by a draw- 




THE OVEUHANGING BALCONIES. 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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'LINGER AS CHERISHED LANDMARKS. 



bridge across the moat and through the gate. Earthworks extended along the 
St. Sebastian River in the rear (west) of the town, and around to the Matanzas 
again on the south. The gate was closed at night. Guards were stationed in the 
sentry boxes. Just within the gate was a guard house, with a detachment of 
troops. When the sunset gun was fired, the bridge was raised, the gate was 
barred, and the guards took their stations. When once the gate was closed, the 
belated wayfarer, be he citizen or stranger, must make the best of it without the 
town until mornins". 



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REAR VIEW OF THE OLD HOUSE ON ST. GEORGE STREET. 




ii: OLD HOUSE ON ST. GEORGE STREET. 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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CHARLOTTE STREET, ST. AUGUSTINE. 



The Plaza is a pleasing bit of greensward in the center of the town. It is a 
public park of shrubbery and shade trees, with monuments and fountains, an 
antiquated market place inviting one to loiter, and an outlook to the east over the 
bay and Anastasia Island to the sails of ships at sea. The open structure on the 
east end of the Plaza is commonly pointed out as the "old slave pen," or "slave 



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MARKET," and it is sometimes alleged to have been of Spanish origin. It never 
was used as a "slave pen," nor as a "slave market," nor had the Spaniards any- 
thing to do with it, for they had left the country twenty years before it was built. 
The market was built in 1840, for the sale of meat and other food supplies, and it 
was devoted to that use. 

It was not until the influx of curiosity-seeking tourists, after the Civil War, that 
anv one thought of dubbing the Plaza market a "slave market." The name was 




THE NEW ST. AUGUSTINE. 
Looking from the zvindozi's of tlie Hotel Granada. 



invented by a photographer in order to sell his photographs. The "slave market," 
''Huguenot Cemetery" and "oldest house" yarns have been told so often to 
credulous visitors that there are now some residents of St. Augustine who actually 
almost believe the stories themselves ; but the facts are that St. Augustine never 
had a slave market nor a Huguenot cemetery, and that no one knows 
which house is the oldest. 

^The park takes the name of Plaza de la Constitucion from the monument 
erected here by the Spaniards in 181 3 to commemorate the adoption of a liberal 



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MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



constitution by the Spanish Cortes. The Plaza monument to the Confederate 
dead was erected in 1872 by the Ladies' Memorial Association. 

Facing the Plaza on the west is the Post Office ; the east end is open to the bay. 
On the south rises the spire of Trinity Church. On the north is St. Joseph's 




PLAZA AND CATHEDRAL. 



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GROUNDS OF THE BUCKINGHAM LOOKING TOWARD THE ALCAZAR. 



Cathedral, completed in 1791. burned in 1887 and rebuilt and enlarged in 
1887-88. One of the original bells bears the inscription *"Sancte • Joseph • 
Ora • Pro • Nobis • D • 1682." 

Extending from Fort Marion south along the water front to the United States 
barracks stands a sea-wall of coquina capped with New England granite. It 
affords a necessary protection against the encroachment of the sea ; the site of 
St. Augustine is so low that under certain conditions of wind and tide the waves 
would inundate much of the town. In heavy east storms the water dashes over 
the top of the wall. The need of such a barrier against the sea was recognized at 
an early time. There is a touch of the humorous side of history in the spectacle 
of Spain, having chosen this bit of Florida soil for a town, building first a fort 
to defend it from invaders, and then a wall to protect it from the inroads of the 
sea. The present wall was built l)y the United States, in 1835-42, as a complement 
to the repairs of Fort Marion, at an expense of $100,000. The length is ^ mile, 
the height 10 feet. 

Complementing th , l)attlements and watch-towers of Fort Marion on the 
north, the St. Francis Barracks stand out conspicuously at the south end of the 
sea-wall facing the Mantanzas. They take the name from the Franciscan Convent, 
whose former site they occupy. The old building has been greatly modified by the 



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United States Government, although not entirely rebuilt ; and some of the original 
coquina walls of the convent remain. 

A short distance south of the I>arracks is the Military Cemetery, where are 
three low pyramids of masonry forming the tombs of officers and men who lost 
their lives in the Seminole War. The memorial shaft is commonly spoken of as 




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"Dade's Monument," because more than one hundred of the soldiers interred 
here were those who perished in the '"Dade Massacre," one of the most tragic 
mcidents of the Seminole War. In x'Xugust, 1835, Major Dade and a command 
of troops, no all told, were on their way from Fort Brooke to Fort King. At 
half past nine o'clock, Friday morning, August 28, they were marching through 
an open pine barren, four miles from the Great Wahoo Swamp, when they were 
6red on by a band of Seminoles in ambush, and all but three were killed. 

The Barracks are not now occupied by the United States troops, but are used 
for military pur])oses by the State of Florida. 



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THE OLD FIREPLACE IN THE VEDDER MUSEUM. 



The scope of the influence of the St. Augustine Institute of Science and 
Historical Society has been greatly enlarged by the purchase of the well-known 
Vedder Collection in Natural History. This collection, to which the late Dr. 
Vedder had devoted many years of his life, covers very completely the natural 
history of Florida. And now that this has been added to the Geological Arche- 
ological, Mineralogical and Historical Collection, the Society has a solid founda- 
tion that will eventually develop into a collection of the greatest value to both 
the man of science and the historian as well. It is the only attempt of the kind 
made anywhere in the State of Florida, and as such deserves the most hearty 
support both from the citizens of Florida and from those who seek the State 
and city for health and pleasure. The fact that the Aluseum is in an old historic 
house that has never been remodeled gives an added attraction to the sightseer 
and antiquarian. Our illustration shows one of the Museum rooms containing 
the old fireplace just as it has been used for so many years. As one of the coquina 
houses of a type that is rapidly disappearing, the building itself is worth visiting. 
The Museum is on Bay street at the corner of Treasury street, one block north 
from the Plaza. 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 




THE VILLA ZORAYDA. 





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THE FLORIDA HOUSE. 



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FORT MARION LOOKING TOWARD THE SEA. 

Fort Marion is at the north end of the sea-waU and commands the harbor. 
It is open daily (admission free) from 8 A. M. to 4 P. M. Afternoon is the most 
pleasant time for seeing the fort. The sergeant in charge conducts visitors 
through the casemates. 

The fort, which is the only example of medigeval fortification on this continent, 
is a fine specimen of the art of military engineering as developed at the time of 
its construction. It is a massive structure of coquina stone, with curtains, 
bastions, moat and outworks. 

Surrounding the fort on the three land sides is an immense artificial hill of earth, called the 
glacis. From the crest of the glacis on the southeast, a bridge, formerly a drawbridge, leads 
across part of the moat to the barbacan. The barbacan is a fortification, surrounded by the 
moat, directly in front of the fort entrance, which it was designed to protect. In the barbacan 
at the stairway are the Arms of Spain. A second bridge, originally a drawbridge, leads from 
the barbacan across the wide moat to the sally-port, which is the only entrance to the fort. 
This was provided with a heavy door, called the portcullis. On the outer wall, above the 
5ally-port. is the escutcheon, bearing the Arms of Spain; and the Spanish legend, which read: 



REYNANDO EN ESPANA EL SENr DON FERNANDO SEXTO Y SIENDO GOVor Y CAPn DE 
ESa Cd San AUGn DE LA FLORIDA E SUS PROVa EL MARESCAL DE CAMPO DnALONZO 
FERNdo HEREDA ASI CONCLUIO ESTE CASTILLO EL AN OD 1756 DIRI^ENDO LAS OBRAS 
EL CAP INGNro DN PEDRO DE BROZAS Y GARAY 

" Don Ferdinand VI. , being King of Spain, and the Field Marshal Don Alonzo Fernando Hereda being 
Governor and Captain-General of this place, San Augustin of Florida, and its province, this fort was finished 
in the year 1756. The works were directed by the Captain-Engineer Don Pedro de Brozas of Garay," 



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Within the fort on the right of the entrance hall is the old bake room, and beyond this 
are two dark chambers, which were used for storage. On the left is the guards' room. The 
hall opens upon a large square court (103 by 109 feet). Around this court are casemates 
or rooms which were used for barracks, messrooms, storerooms, etc. Some of the casemates 
were divided into lower and upper apartments. A beam of light is admitted through a nar- 
row window or embrasure, high up near the arched ceiling. From the first east casemate 
a door leads back into an interior dark room. From the furthest casemate on the same 
side an entrance leads back into a dark chamber, off from which a narrow passage leads 
through a wall 5 feet deep into a space 6 feet wide; and from this a low aperture 2 feet 
square gives access through another wall 5 feet deep, into an innermost vault or chamber, 
which is 191/' feet long, 132-3 feet broad, and 8 feet high. The arched roof is of solid 
masonry. There is no other outlet than the single aperture. This is the so-called "dungeon" 
of Fort Marion. It was designed for a powder magazine or bomb-proof. When the fort was 
in repair the chamber was dry and fit for use as a safe deposit for explosives; but when the 
water from above percolated through the coquina, this bomb-proof or powder magazine 
became damp and unwholesome. For this reason it was no longer used except as a place 
to throw rubbish into. Then it bred fevers, and finally, as a sanitary measure, the Spaniards 
walled it up, and the middle room as well. They did this in the readiest way by closing the 

entrances with coquina ma- 
sonry. When the United 
States came into possession 
of the fort the officers sta- 
tioned here did not suspect 
the existence of these disused 
chambers, although among 
the residents of the town were 
men who had knowledge of 
them and of their prosaic use 
as deposits for rubbish. One 
of these residents once related 
to the writer his recollection 
of the disused powd^er maga- 
zine, as he was familiar with 
it when, as a boy, he was em- 
ployed at the fort. In 1839 
the masonry above the middle 
chamber caved in, and while 
the engineers were making 
repairs the closed entrance to 
the innermost chamber was 
noticed, and investigation led 
to its discovery. Refuse and 
rubbish were found there. The 
report was given out — whether 
at the time or later — that in 
this rubbish were some bones. 
From this insignificant begin- 
ning the myth-makers evolved 
first the tale that the bones 
were human, then they added 
a rusty chain and a staple in 
the wall, a gold ring on one 




PLAN OF FORT MARION. 

1, bridge from barbacan to glacis. 2, stairway to barbacan. 8, bridge 
over moat. 4, sally-port, 5, hall. 6, bake room. 7, 8, dark rooms. 7 (left), 
guards' room. 9, interior dark room. 10, 10, casemates. 11, casemate. 
12, interior dark room. 14, bomb-proof. 15, chapel. 16, dark room. 10<z, 
treasurer's room. 10c, casemate from which Coacoochee escaped. B, bas- 
tion, W, water-tower. 



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The fou 
at base, 



skeleton's finger, instruments of 
torture, iron cages, a pair of 
boots, and a Spanish Inquisi- 
tion tale of horror. Facing the 
court on the north is the chapel. 
In the wall of the court above 
the party of French astronomers 
who came here in 1879 to ob- 
serve the transit of Venus have 
left a marble tablet in commem- 
oration of their visit. In the 
northwest bastion is another 
dark room. Casemate loc is 
known as "Coacoochee's cell." 
Coacoochee was a Seminole 
chief, who at one time during 
the Seminole War was confined 
here ; and with a companion 
made his escape by squeezing 
through the embrasure and drop- 
ping to the moat. The Seminole 
chief Osceola was also a pris- 
oner in Fort Marion, whence he 
was removed to Fort Moultrie, 
in Charleston Harbor, where he 
died. 

From the court a stone ascent 
leads up to the terreplein of the 
ramparts. This ascent was orig- 
inally an inclined plane for ar- 
tillery. At the outer angle of 
each bastion is a sentry box. 
the fort between the bastions are the curtains. The walls are 9 feet thick 
and 25 feet high above the present moat level. The bastions are filled 



CHAPEL ENTRANCE AND CASEMATES. 



r walls of 
^Vi at top, 




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ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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THE SEMINOLE CHIEF OSCEOLA. 

with earth. The fort is surrounded by a moat, 40 feet wide, formerly deeper than at present, 
with a cemented concrete floor, and flooded from the bay at high tide. Along the outer 
edge of the moat are narrow level spaces called covered-ways; and wider levels called 
places-of-arms, where artillery was mounted and the troops gathered, protected by the outer 
wall or parapet, from which slopes the glacis. The fortification of stone (water battery) in 
front was built by the United States in 1842. The small brick building (hot shot furnace) 
in the moat dates from 1844. 



In different forms and bearing different names, the fort has been established 
more than three centuries. For two hundred years the fort was St. Augustine, and 
St. Augustine was Florida. At first a rude and temporary structure of pine logs, 



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the fortification expanded in niap^nitnde until it developed into the great stone 
fortress. In the years of its l:)uikling the progress of such a work was slow. Con- 
victs from Spain and Mexico, and Indians and slaves, cpiarried the stone on 
Anastasia Island, ferried it across the bay, and toiled at the walls ; and it was not 
until the year 1756 that the work was considered finished. The story goes that the 
King of Spain, counting up the cost, fancied that the fort must have been built 




RUINS OF SPANISH FORT AT MATANZAS INLET. 



of gold ; and we may well imagine that successive Governors-General filled their 
pockets out of the job and went home rich men. 

The walls are built of coquina, which in its day was considered a very excellent 
material for this purpose, since cannon balls would sink into the wall without 
shattering it as they would harder stone. On the sea front of the southwest 
bastion are crevices, which according to local tradition were caused by British 
cannon balls from the opposite shore when the town was besieged by Oglethorpe, 
who in 1740 landed a force on Anastasia Island and bombarded the fort for forty 
days. In that age of crude artillery the coquina bastions were capable of with- 
standing a much more serious attack than that of Oglethorpe's batteries ; but the 
art of war has changed since then, and Fort Marion would quickly be shattered 
by modern guns. 

Shortly after coming into the possession of the United States, the fort was 
named Fort Marion, in honor of the Revolutionary hero, General Francis Marion. 



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St. Anastasia Island, lying- in front of the town, between bay and ocean, is 
a favorite resort for excursion parties, and has many attractions for the tourist. 
The most pleasant time for a visit is the afternoon. The route is by bridge from 
King street, and rail, drive or cycle path. The Lighthouse is usually 
open to visitors. The light is a fixed white and revolving flash light, flashing 
once every 3 minutes, and is visible 19 miles. The purpose of the variability of the 
light is to render it distinguishable from others. Thus, while the St. Augustine 
light is a fixed white light varied by a flash every 3 minutes, the St. Johns River 
light, the next one north, is a fixed white light ; and the Cape Canaveral light, 
the second one south, flashes every minute. The black and white spiral stripes, 
which make the tower look like a grotesque Brobdingnagian barber's pole, dis- 
tinguish it from others by day ; the tower of the St. Johns River light is red ; that 
of the Cape Canaveral light has black and white horizontal bands. 

Anastasia Island extends from St. Augustine south 12 miles to Matanzas 
Inlet, where there are picturesque ruins of an old Spanish fort which defended, 
the sea approach to the town from the south. The name Matanzas (from the 
Spanish Matanza — slaughter) commemorates the massacre of the Huguenots, 
which occurred here in the year 1565, an event connected with the founding of 
St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez. The French Huguenots had established a 
settlement on the River St. Johns, and in 1565 Menendez came with a Spanish 
force to drive them out. He landed at the Indian village of Seloy, and on 
its site founded St. Augustine. The French, leaving a garrison in their Fort 
Caroline, sailed to attack St. Augustine, but their ships were driven south by a 
storm. Thereupon Menendez marched to the St. Johns, captured the French 
fort and put the garrison to death. Upon his return to St. Augustine he learned 
that the French fleet had been wrecked on the coast. He proceeded south \.o- 
this inlet, discovered the Frenchmen on the other side, and bv false promises in- 
duced them to surrender and deliver up their arms. Then he sent them boats, 
brought them over in small bands at a time, bound them, blindfolded them, led 
them behind the sand hills, and there in the name of religion put them to death. 




FORT MARION THE WATER BATTERY. 



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The Memorial Presbyterian Church, on Valencia street, erected by Mr. 
Henry M. Flagler in 1889, was designed by Messrs. Carrere & Hastings, the 
architects of the Ponce de Leon. The building material used was the concrete 
employed for the great hotels. The exterior has a wealth of decoration, and 
the great copper dome is one of the conspicuous architectural features, which 
contribute so much to the attractiveness of St. Augustine. Adjoining the 
church on Sevilla street is the manse. The church is open to visitors during 
the day, except Mondays and Saturdays. The windows by Mr. H. T. Schlader- 
mundt, of New York, are among the most notable of recent examples of 
decorative work in stained glass. For his theme Mr. Schladermundt has taken 
the Apostles' Creed. Beginning with the rose window in the east the series 
proceeds to the left, the illuminated text of the Creed being accompanied with 
emblems as follows : 

'T believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth," 
(The emblem is the earth upheld by flying angels.) 

"Jesus Christ His onlv Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
born of the Mrgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate," 
(The two large panels picture Christ blessing little children; and Christ in the Garden 
of Gethsemane, with the ministering angel and the three sleeping disciples.) 

"Was crucified, dead and buried." 

(The emblems are the cross and the passion flower.) 

"He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Fathei 
Almighty;" 

(The emblems are crown and palm tree.) 
"From whence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead." 

(The emblems are scales, scroll and hyssop.) 
"I believe in the Holy Ghost;" 

(The emblems are the dove and the Holy Ghost orcliid.) 

"The Holy Catholic Church ;" 

(The emblems are candelabra and olive tree.) 
"The communion of Saints ;" 

(The emblems are the cup and ripe clusters of grapes.) 

"The forgiveness of sins ;" 

(The emblems — outstretched hand and liyssop.) 

"The resurrection of the body," 

(The emblems flying wings and Easter lily.) 

"The life everlasting." 

(The emblems are a hart drinking at a brook and the Tree of Life.) 

In the rose window in the south is a flying angelic herald proclaiming "Glory 
to God in the Highest." In the wall below a scroll bears the message, "Peace 
on Earth," with emblematic dove. 





WINDOWS IN THE MEMORIAL CHURCH. 
By H. T. Schladermundt. 




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It has been the fashion in describing St. Augustine to lay emphasis on its 
Spanish character. With the one exception of the fort, however, no specially 
notable example of Spanish architecture was to be found here. Throughout the 
entire period of its rule from Madrid the town appears to have been always poor, 
as the Boucaniers found it in the middle of the seventeenth centurv. And vet no 




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natural conditions were wanting. The sky above St. Augustine arches as deli- 
cately blue and soft as tliat of Seville. The sunlight is as warm and as golden as 
that which floods the patios of Spanish Alcazars. The Florida heavens are as 
radiantly brilliant by night, and the full moon floats as luminously above the 
Atlantic coast, as where the pinnacles and minarets of Valencia glitter in its 
beams on the Mediterranean shore. Add to these natural adaptations the historic 
associations of Spain and the Spaniards, and there is little room for wonder that 
the visitor looked for some architectural monuments other than gloomy fortifica- 
tions to commemorate the dignity and pride of the ancient Spanish rule. 



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Some such reflections as these, perhaps, prompted the designers of the 
projected Ponce de Leon to look to the architecture of Spain for the style most 
appropriate for the structure. They found it in the Spanish Renaissance ; and 
this was well chosen, for it was the style of which the development coincided with 
the most glorious period of Spanish history. 

The historic symbolism of the decoration is to be observed at the very gateway 
of the court in the lion's masque which ornaments each of the gateposts. It is 
the heraldic lion of Leon, that sturdy Spanish town which so long and so bravely 
withstood the Moors ; and an emblem, too, of the doughty warrior, Juan Ponce 
de Leon, proclaimed in his epitaph "a lion in name and a lion in heart." Above 
the arch of the gateway, repeated in the spandrels of the panel arches, is the 
stag's head, which was the sacred totem of Seloy, the Indian village on whose 
site St. Augustine was built. From the gateway of the court the towers are seen 
for the first time in their full proportions. Each side of the square tower is 
pierced near the top with an arched window, opening upon a balcony, reminding 
us of the balconies of Mohammedan mosques ; and from them, at morning, noon 
or nightfall, we might almost expect to hear the muezzin's call to prayer. Cross- 
ing the court, past the fountain, we approach the grand entrance. This is a full- 
centered arch, 20 feet wide. Around the face of the arch, in a broad band, carved 
in relief on a row of shields, a letter to a shield, runs the legend. Ponce dc Leon. 
Garlands depend from the shields, which are supported by mermaids. This is 
another suggestion of the sea as the source whence came the shell composite of 
the hotel walls ; and also of the sea as the field of Ponce de Leon's achievements. 
The suggestion is further emphasized in the shell-pattern in the spandrels of the 
arch, and yet again in the marine devices of the coats-of-arms on the two shields. 
The other entrances, on the east and west, should have attention before we leave 
the court. In the wall, on each side of the doorway, is a deep fountain niche. 
The water issues from the mouth of a dolphin. Above the door, in the key of the 
arch, is a shield with a shell device, and medallions with Spanish proverbs occupy 
the spandrels. The dolphins of the fountain niches have special appropriateness ; 
they are not only typical of the sea, but have a local significance as well, for the 
bay of St. Augustine once bore the name River of Dolphins, given it by 
Laudonniere, the Huguenot captain, who anchored his ships here in 1564. The 
allusion to the sea. in the dolphins and the shells, is a motive repeated again and 
again throughout the hotel ; even the door knobs are modeled after shells. 

While the decorations of the rotunda are true to the Spanish Renaissance style, 
the motives for them have been found in the Spain and the Florida of the 
sixteenth century ; the symbolism is of the spirit of that age and the impulses 
which then held sway. Painted on the pendentives of the cove ceiling of the 
second story are female figures typical of Adventure, Discovery, Conquest. 
Civilization. Four other figures represent the elements. Earth, Air. Fire, and 
Water The decorations in the penetrations are lyres, with swans on either side. 
The lyres are surmounted alternately by a masque of the Sun god of the Florida 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 



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A TOJETTI FRESCO. 



Indians, and by the badge of the most ilkistrious order of Spanish knighthood, 
the Golden Fleece, depending from its flint-stone, surrounded by flames of gold. 
Where this appears, the design of the border is the Collar of the Golden Fleece, 
the chain of double steels interlaced with flint-stones. 

Below in the spandrels of the corridor arches is seen the stag's head, the 
barbaric emblem of the Sun-worshiping Indians. Shields bear the arms of the 
present provinces of Spain, and on cartouches are emblazoned the names of the 
great discoverers of America. Cornucopias are favorite forms here, as else- 
where throughout the hotel. 

The upper dome is modeled in high relief; around its base dances a band of 
laughing Cupids ; between these figures are circular openings ; and the vault 
above is all modeled with delicate tracery of pure white and gold effects ; casques 
and sails signify the military and maritime achievements of Spain ; and the crown 
of the dome is surrounded with eagles. 



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A TOJETTI FRESCO. 
Ceiling decoration in the Hotel Ponce de Leon. 



A broad stairway of marble and Mexican onyx leads to a landing, trom which 
is entered the dining hall. In delightfully antique letters set in mosaic in the 
floor of the landing is the aptly chosen verse of welcome, taken from Shenstone : 

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round. 

Where'er his stages may have been. 
May sigh to think he still has found 

The warmest welcome at an inn. 

On each end, north and south, of the central dining hall is a panel of dancing 
Cupids, with roguish faces and outstretched hands, representing the feast ; some 
extend clusters of luscious grapes, and bread and cups of wine in welcome to the 
guests, while others ladle steaming oUa from great Spanish caldcrons. On the wall 
above are pictured ships of Spain, with sails full set and gracefully waving 
streamers and pennants ; they are the high-pooped Spanish caravels of the six- 
teenth century, just such vessels as that in which Ponce de Leon came to Florida 
in his search for the fountain. On the pendentives between the stained-glass 
windows, allegorical paintings represent the Four Seasons. The grand parlor 
decorations are in ivory-white and gold, with frescoes by Tojetti of Cupids and 
garlands and filmy drapery amid clouds in the corner ceilings. 



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On the south side of King street, opposite the Ponce de Leon, is the Alcazar, 
an adjunct of the hotel, and in architecture a fitting complement of it. The 
Alcazar is of Spanish Renaissance style, and of a design which, like that of the 
Ponce de Leon, is original throughout. Within is a court of flowers, shrubbery 
and vines, with a fountair playing in the center. The court — not unworthy to be 
compared with the patios of the Alcazars in Spain — is surrounded by an arcade, 
upon which open shops and of^ces. Beyond is the Casino, in which are the great 
swimming pools of sulphur water from the artesian wells. 

The group of concrete hotels on the Alameda is completed by the Hotel 
Cordova. In style it does not follow the Spanish Renaissance architecture ; the 
suggestions for the heavy walls and battlemented towers were found in the strong 
castles and town defenses of Spain ; it recalls those architectural monuments of 
the warring ages of the past ; vast piles of masonry, which grew with the incre- 
ments of hundreds of years, amid the conflicts of Roman and Goth and Moor and 
Christian. Thus the archway on the north fagade, formerly a gateway, flanked by 
massive towers round and square, was an adaptation of the Puerto del Sol, or 
Gate of the Sun, of Toledo, one of the famous remains of the Moorish dominion 
in Spain. The balconies of the lower range of windows are the "kneeling bal- 
conies" of Seville, so called because the protruding base was devised by Michael 
Angelo to permit the faithful to kneel at the passing of religious festivals. 




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My office, corner Prado and Central Park, has been established especially for 
your convenience. You will find here maps, schedules and printed matter, descrip- 
tive of the routes of travel throughout the Island and to the various parts of the 
United States, Mexico, the West Indies and Europe, as well as literature concerning 
the lands and industries of Cuba. 1 will be glad to give you also personal information 
concerning Cuba — hotels, modes of travel, hunting and fishing, lands — or about 
travel anywhere. I will plan tours for >ou and will give you cards of introduction to 
hotel proprietors and to other business people. 

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the city, it will be worth your while to see me first. I will give you information that 
will save you both time and money. 1 accept no commissions from transportation 
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and disinterested, and it is given absolutely free, no fees being asked or in any 
instance accepted. 

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and the West Indies^ and Sleeping Car Tickets to Santa Clara, Camaguey, 
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THE SAN JUAN, MATANZAS. 



AN EXCURSION TO MATANZAS, CUBA, 

Matanzas is second only to Havana in interest for the tourist. The 
place has peculiar beauty of situation and surroundings. The Yumuri Valley 
is one of the famous landscapes of the globe. The Bellamar Caves rank with 
the most marvelous of the world's caverns. He has not seen Cuba who has 
not seen Matanzas. By no means should the Matanzas excursion be omitted 
from one's itinerary. 

The city is reached by a pleasant ride of 54 miles on the United Railways 
of Havana. One may make the trip with freedom from care and responsibility, 
by the personally conducted excursions, which are arranged daily under direc- 
tion of Mr. Foster's Havana office. The excursions are accompanied by a 
competent, intelligent and courteous conductor, who assumes entire charge o£ 
the details of the trip. 

There is not a dull minute in the day. The railroad traverses one of the 
most interesting of Cuba's country districts, where the scenes are as pleasing 
and attractive as they are strange to the northern eye. On all sides are the 
royal palms, lending their characteristic grace and dignity to the picture. The 
cane-fields, surprising in extent, are scenes of active industry, for this is the 
sugar harvest, and the busy mills with black volumes of smoke belching from 
the tall stacks, give some hint of the magnitude of Cuba's enormous sugar 
crop. Orange groves laden with golden fruit, cocoanut palms, and varied 
fruits, and vegetable gardens diversify the land; and as the train approaches 
Matanzas, fields of sisal hemp (henequin) are seen. Hemp growing is a new 
enterprise in Cuba and one which bids fair to assume great importance. 

Arrived at Mantanzas, carriages convey the excursionists through the 
city, and to the Hermitage of Montserrate, the Bellamar Caves, and other 
points of interest. 



All of these are fully described in the Standard Guide to Cuba, in the 
chapter devoted to Matanzas (pages loi to 112), which the intending visitors 
will do well to read. 

The Bellamar Caves have lately been thoroughly cleaned and an electric 
lighting system has been installed. Their fame as Cuba's greatest wonder, 
and their comparison to the .Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, are merited; in- 
deed, many people consider them to be more wonderful than the Mammoth 
Cave. 

The excursion ticket covers every expense. It includes: 

Railway fare. 

Carriage to hotel. 

Breakfast at hotel (Paris or Louvre), 

Carriage ride (3 hours) about the city, and to Hermitage of Mont- 
serrate, Yumuri Valley, Paseo de Marti, and Bellamar Caves. 

Passage through the caves and return to station. 

Returning to Havana at 6 o'clock P. M. 

Tickets for the daily excursions to Matanzas may be had at Mr. Foster's 
offices : Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Tampa and 
Miami, Fla., and in Havana, corner Frado and Central Park, Camagiiey Hotel, 
Camagiiey. 

First class, adults, $11.00: third class, adults, $8.00. 

F'irst class, children, $7.50; third class, children, $.S.oo. 




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and all sorts of travelers' literature that will be helpful to you. 

I will tell you which trains to take to make best connections, how 
to avoid night travel if desired, what is of interest along the wa3^ 
which routes afford the greatest scenic advantages, how to combine 
most advantageously travel by water and rail. 

I can tell you the cost of railroad and steamship tickets and the 
rates charged at the different hotels. I will engage your hotel accom- 
modations in advance if 3'ou wish it, and will give you letters of 
nitroduction that will help to smooth your wa3^ 

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Standard Guide Information Offices 

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Chestnut and 12th Sts. (in Acker Quality Shop), Philadelphia 



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Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23d Street. 



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Arcade of the Flatiron Building 

I KNOW New York and can tell you what to see, and how to 
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anywhere in New York. If there is anything you want and you 
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for you. We will do any shopping you wish done and do it care- 
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ST. AUGUSTINE. 



35 




HOTEL CORDOVA, ALCAZAR ANNEX — CORDOVA COkNEK. 



There are several pleasant drives about the city. One of these is through 
the gateway to the north, "around the horn," and return by the St. Sebastian, 
'.rhe time is an hour, and the fare $1.50 for one to three in a party. Another 
drive is to Moultrie Point, on the shore, five miles south of town, the route being 
across the San Sebastian and through the pines and denser growth of the west 
bank of the river. This road has been laid out and is maintained by Mr. Albert 
Lewis, of Bear Creek, Pa. The time is two hours, and the cost $3 for one to 
three people. Other drives are to the sea beach. 



36 



THE STANDARD GUIDE. 

IN SPANISH ST. AUGUSTINE. 



Le Sieur Causse, an honest French 
mariner of the eigiitecnth centnry, who was 
shipwrecked on the Bahamas, plundered by 
pirates, and in the end forced to turn pirate 
himself, and who left in a manuscript care- 
fully cherished by his descendants, an account 
of his sea life, found his way about the year 
1750 to St. Augustine ; and gives a racy and 
curious picture of what he saw there: 

■'In Havana we found a French corsair, 
commanded Iw M. P'erret, who also owned 
the vessel. It mounted six three-pounder 
guns, twelve swivel guns, and had seventy 
men of all sorts and conditions, including 
Spaniards, Turks, Genoese, and English. As 
I was now quite destitute, and had nothing 
left in the world but my shirt and breeches, 
there seemed nothing better for me than to 
embark on board this ship, especially as M. 
Ferret offered me the post of lieutenant. Fie 
took at the same time several of our people. 
After victualling the ship, we set sail for the 
English strait. When two days out we saw 
a little ship careening under the island of 
Samana. To ascertain what she was M. 
Ferret lowered the long 1;nat. and I was 
ordered to take nine men, and if she turned 
out to be English, to seize her. When al- 
ready near to her, some English sailors who 
had concealed themselves behind the rocks, 
opened a volley of musketry fire upon us, 
which oidy wounded three of us. Our wish 
was to land and drive them out. but M. 
Ferret by signal recalled us to the ship, and 
our corsair was moved in to half cannon shot 
distance, almost grounding, and we cannon- 
aded her till we had rendered her useless. 

"When we were off St. Augustine, in 
Florida, we determined to careen and repitch 
our vessel. So in answer to our signal for 
a pilot a launch came off from the shore and 
took us in tow. By hard rowing they brought 
us over the lar, so tiiat we were able to sail 
up the river. Next day we came to anchor 
before the town of St. Augustine, which we 
saluted with thirteen guns. The boat was 
lowered, and j\I. Ferret paid a visit to the 
governor, who received him with every at- 
tention, offering to supply us with all we 



needed. Next day the governor came on 
Ijoard, and we set before him a collation of 
a varied sort, on which he comidimented us. 
Indeed, this little dejeuner was of the gayest. 
We drank to the prosperity of our cotmtries 
with the accompaniment of salvos of cannon, 
and the cheers of the men who went into the 
rigging. When the governor left he invited 
all the officers to the Government Flouse next 
day. 



"The hour lieing at hand for our appear- 
ance there, many of us represented to M. 
Ferret that we could not present otirselvcs 
before the governor decently, as most of us 
had only one shirt and one pair of breeches, 
which made him laugh much. Being deter- 
mined to take us along with him, he lent irs 
all the clothing he had, and although it was 
his very licst. yet our appearance was com- 
ical enough. Some of us had lace-up clothes 
without vests, others nothing but vests and 
liig JDreeches. Thus then in grand parade, 
each of us with a sword at his side, we pro- 
ceeded to the Government House, where we 
were recei\ed by the go\ernor himself and 
introduced to the company. We sat down 
to a dinner served by the cook, Dubord. and 
had good wine dessert. At 3 o'clock we ad- 
journed to another hall and danced minuets 
with some beautiful Spanish ladies. After- 
ward we went to the church, where the gov- 
ernor had us placed in a large covered pew 
1 y his side. It had a curtain of crimson 
velvet and was opposite the pulpit. The 
preacher was Recollet Father. At the sec- 
ond part of the discourse we were surprised 
to see him produce a skull upon which he 
placed a wig. After he had spoken in an 
impassioned manner words which, though we 
could not understand them, were evidently 
good moralities, he took the peruque off this 
skull and in its stead placed a head-dress and 
a veil. Doubtless this part of his discourse 
was addressed to the women, at which re- 
markable scene some of us could not resist 
laughter. For my own iiart, I liit mv lips 
to save myself from exploding. I could have 
wished to have been outside. In concluding 



ST. AUGUSTINE. 



37 



his sermon he took a crucifix, and as if he 
noticed that what he had said had not suffi- 
ciently moved his audience, I understood 
very well that he cried out several times, 
'You are not willing to weep? You are not 
willing to weep for your God? Very well, 
I will take Him away." Then he descended 
from the pulpit and left the church in a rage, 
taking the crucifix with him; and immediately 
everybody rushed out after him, through the 
streets, telling their rosaries. There only 
remained in the church a few women faint- 
ing and without help. Such an impression 
had the monk made upon them! He present- 
ly returned, still followed by the crowd, into 



the church, pronounced the benediction, and 
all was over. 

"We next went with the governor to see 
the races, which are chiefly entertaining on 
account of the large assemblage of peopl* 
of both sexes. The race itself is a very sma/ 
matter. About sixty horses were made to 
run one after another, while their riders tried 
to seize the head of a cock who is fastened by 
the feet to a cord tied across the street above 
their heads. 

"Some weeks after, having completed cur 
careen and provisioned our ship, we took 
farewell of the worthy governor and got out 
of the river." 




ST AUCFSTINE 

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ST. AUGUSTINE IN BRITISH TIMES. 




DRESS PARADE AT THE FLORIDA OSTRICH FARM, JA( Kso.W I l.LK. 



THE EAST COAST. 

Jacksonville, on the St. John's River, twenty-five miles from the sea, is the 
entering point for Florida from the north. It is the largest city in the State, and 
the railway and steamship center. All trains arrive at and depart from the Union. 
Passenger Station, thus avoiding transfers. All Northern and Western lines here 
connect with the Florida East Coast Line. The Clyde Line steamships run to 
Charleston and New York, and the Clyde's St. John's River steamers ascend the 
river to Sanford, and the Independent Line of steamboats to Green Cove Springs. 
The great fire of 1900 swept over a large area of the city, entirely destroying 145 
blocks, and blotting out many of the familiar landmarks ; but from the ruins a 
new Jacksonville has arisen, more substantial, and in many ways more attractive 
than the old. The city has enjoyed long-established popularity as a tourist 
resort, and ample provision is made for the comfort of visitors. It has well 
paved streets, shaded by live oaks and other foliage trees, and there are many 
pleasant drives in the suburbs. A place of much interest is the Florida Ostrich 
Farm, where the breeding of ostriches for their feathers is an established and 
successful industry. Ostrich culture may here be studied in all stages, from the 
giant egg to the plucked plumes. 

Going south from St. Augustine, one comes first to Palatka, on the St. John's 
River, twenty-eight miles from St. Augustine via the East Coast Railway, and 
fifty-six miles from Jacksonville. Palatka is an attractive and flourishing city, 
and the walks and drives in all directions are romantic and beautiful. Rowboats 
and small steamers can be leased for excursions to points on the St. John's River. 
The city is the point of departure for the Ocklawaha steamboats. 



THE EAST COAST. ♦ 39 

Jacksonville, the metropolis of Florida, is on the St. John's River, twenty- 
five miles from the sea by the winding course of the river, and eighteen miles 
in a direct line. It is a deep-water port ; on the completion of dredging opera- 
tions now in progress by the National Government, bar and channel will admit 
the heaviest freight ships afloat. In growing commercial importance Jackson- 
ville is one of the chief cities of the South. Its superb geographical situation 
assures its supremacy for the future. Says a recent writer: 

"The fact that Jacksonville is further west than any other Atlantic port in 
the world is one worthy of consideration. The coast line turns slightly west 
of south from New York to Cape Hatteras to the mouth of the St. John's. On 
account of this trend of the ocean to the westward. Southern ports are nearer 
to the geographical center of the country than are the ports of the North. 

"Jacksonville is nearer than ports north of Charleston to St. Louis, Kansas 
City and all parts of Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Montana, 
and the States west and south of them, and as near to them as is Charleston 
or Savannah. Coming further south, Jacksonville is the nearest Atlantic port," 
The growth of populaton in recent years has been phenomenal. The popu- 
lation in 1901 was 28,000; to-day it is estimated to be 65,000. In May, 1901, 
a conflagration destroyed 2,600 buildings with a loss of over $15,000,000; the 
burned area has been rebuilt with 8,000 buildings valued at $25,000,000. By 
such a showing is the spirit of the people exhibited and the expansion of the 
future assured. 

As the gateway of Plorida — for the principal railroad lines converge here and 
steamships make this their Florida port — Jacksonville is well known to the tourist 
from the North and the West. The city numbers its winter visitors by hun- 
dreds of thousands. 

There is much to attract one, and abundant means to interest and entertain 
while here. In all the factors which make for comfort and convenience the 
city is well equipped. The streets are broad, well paved and shaded. The 
electric car lines are modern and up-to-date. The city has its own electric light- 
ing system, and shines as an illuminating example of municipal ownership. The 
water supply is from inexhaustible artesian wells. The shops, numerous, varied 
and well stocked, are metropolitan in character. Modern, well built theaters 
bring to the city the best companies. There are many clubs, men's and women's, 
A country club maintains a club house with excellent golf links. A yacht club 
whitens the St. John's with pleasure craft. Pleasant drives lead in many direc- 
tions, and miles of auto roads are well cared for. There are numerous interest- 
ing trips on the river, and the Atlantic beach is readily reached. The Florida 
Ostrich Farm, accessible by electric car line, is an unfailing source of entertain- 
ment; the big birds in action and pose are objects of perennial interest. The 
ostrich may here be studied in all stages, from the egg to the plume on my 
lady's hat. There is an interesting zoological collection at the Farm. A per- 
formance is given every afternoon. 



40 THE STANDARD GUIDE. 

Jacksonville is well provided with hotels of excellence. The city has enjoyed 
long-established popularity as a tourist resort, and ample provision is made for 
the comfort of visitors. 

Of the advantages of Jacksonville for residence, a well considered review in 
the Times-Union says: 

"There is probably no city in the United States that ofifers so many attrac- 
tions as a place of residence as does the city of Jacksonville. It is situated on 
the banks of the noble St. John's River, a river which extends almost the entire 
length of the State and which affords ample opportunities for sportsmen, yachts- 
men and fishermen to indulge in their favorite pastimes. It is within thirty- 
five minutes by rail of the Atlantic Ocean and one of the finest seaside resort 
hotels in America. Standing upon high ground and well drained by creeks that 
flow through it, and by the great river sweeping round it, the city enjoys ad- 
vantages of fortunate sanitary topography, and its natural healthiness has been 
liberally improved by perfect drainage, sewerage and other necessary sanitation. 
It has a splendid supply of almost chemically pure water, obtained from artesian 
wells which are sunk to the depth of about one thousand feet. The climatic 
■conditions are as near perfect for pleasurable existence as can be found in 
America. It is not only a very attractive winter resort, but even the summers 
are not as uncomfortable as in most Northern cities, for it is fanned by delight- 
ful breezes from the Atlantic Ocean. The population is cosmopolitan, probably 
as much so as any city of its size in the United States, and strangers who come 
here to make this their home always find a generous and hearty welcome. The 
school advantages are excellent and are being rapidly improved. There are 
churches of all denominations, and the very best amusements are afforded the 
people of the city. Jacksonville being on the southern circuit, the best attrac- 
tions that visit the largest cities of the South come to Jacksonville. Trolley lines 
run through all parts of the city and into the suburbs, and there are a number 
«of fine parks and pleasure resorts. There are miles of paved streets and beauti- 
ful shell drives. The mortality reports show that Jacksonville is one of the 
healthiest cities in this country. Since the great fire of May, 1901. not only have 
line business blocks been erected, but many costly and elegant residences, and 
in the suburbs, which were not touched by the fire, there are as handsome resi- 
dences as can be found in any city of its size. There are also numerous dwell- 
ings of more modest type which are the homes of traders and mechanics of 
which they themselves are the owners. It may be imagined that because Jack- 
sonville is in the extreme south that it is an isolated city, but with nine rail- 
roads extending to all portions of the country, and elegant Clyde steamships 
running tri-weekly to New York and Boston; and not only telegraphic com- 
munications with all parts of the world, but with long distance telephones, it 
is in touch with all the great business centers of the country." 




A CHARACTERISTIC EAST COAST LANDSCAPE. 
Photo copyright, 1905, by Kaiser, Daytona. 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 




SILVER SPRING. 



The Ocklavvaha River Tour afifords a revelation of some of the wildest and 
most novel scenery in the State, and an experience never to be forgotten. The 
river is navigated by the tourist steamers of the Ocklawaha River lines, from 
Palatka and Silver Springs, railroad connection being made at each of these 
points. (See time cards in our advertising pages.) The steamboats are lighted 
on their way through the night, and the excursion is one which remains in 
memory as the weirdest experience of a lifetime. The stream is narrow and 
extremely tortuous, and is overarched by giant oaks, magnolias, palmettos, 
cypresses, bays and other trees, all festooned with "Spanish moss" in profusion. 
The efifect by daylight is novel and fascinating, and by night it is fantastic, 
mysterious and bewildering beyond description. Silver Spring is a circular 
basin, 600 feet in diameter, of water of wonderful clearness, which bursts up in 
a great flood from a depth of 65 feet, in such volume as to form the navigable 
river by which the steamboat has entered the spring. So clear is the spring, 
that from a boat the smallest objects can be seen at the bottom, and a nail may 
be watched all the way as it goes down, turning and darting in erratic course. 

Ormond, sixty-eight miles from St. Augustine by the East Coast Railway, is 
situated on the Halifax River, here parallel with the Atlantic, the two being 



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IN FLORIDA WOODS. 
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Copyright, 1904, by the Rotograph Co. 

separated by a peninsula a half-mile wide. The Halifax belongs to that system 
of inland waters which are more properly termed lagoons. They are fed by 
inlets from the sea, and extend from a little below St. Augustine to Lake Worth. 
The Ormond climate is of that medium quality which permits one to come 
in October and stay until the end of May. April is cool and delightful. Careful 




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THE NEW ORMOND. 

records of the temperature show that the April averages are : 8 A. M., 69° ; 
12 M., y^° ; 8 P. M., 68°, and the mean for the month, 70°. 

The walks in all directions are singularly attractive, being either shelled or 
planked over sandy spots, and provided with numerous rustic seats and arbors 
along the shaded river banks or through the trails across the half-mile peninsula 
that connects the river with the ocean. Ormond is famous for its drives and its 
bicycle paths and beaches. There is no finer beach anywhere on the Atlantic 
shore than at Ormond. It is 300 feet wide at mean tide, and extends for many 
miles up and down the coast. It is lively with all sorts of pleasure carriages, 
automobiles, electric bicycles and bathers. The tally-ho hardly leaves a mark on 
the smooth surface of the magnificent beach. This is the famous Ormond- 
Daytona automobile speeding course, on which have been made a number of 
world's records. 

Sea bathing is a feature of Ormond. The beach, from the sandy bluf¥ to the 
lowest point at ebb tide, is about 500 feet, and the slope is very gradual, and the 
incoming waves are gentle, so that the most timid and inexpert may here find 




THE BC3TR0M OAKS — AN AUTO TRAIL BY THE HALIFAX, AT ORMOND. SMOOTH, HARD SHELL. 



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TllK TOMOKA — ORMOND AND DAYTONA. 



the water perfectly safe. The beach also is attractive in the variety of beautiful 
shells that are swept up at the high tides. The exquisite nautilus is here cast 
ashore in storms, and searchers haunt the shore eager for the coveted prize. 

The greatest inland water attraction of Ormond is the Tomoka River, once 
the chosen resort of the Tomoka tribe of Indians. Black bass from three to six 
pounds in weight abound in its deep, still waters ; red bass are taken near its 
mouth, and there are many alligators in the stream. The high, wooded blufTs 
afford dry and picturesque camping grounds. The scenery of the river is varied 
and charming; and the one-day trip up the Tomoka is one of the popular excur- 
sions from Ormond. It may easily be reached by carriage or boat. Steamboat 
excursions up the Tomoka are made daily during the season. 

Daytona, five miles to the south of Ormond, occupies an elevated hammock 
site on a circling arm of the Halifax, whence it looks out upon a bay of singular 
beauty. The natural attractions are many — a clean, hard river shore, shady 
drives amid oaks and palmettos, and the Ormond-Daytona beach. Seabreeze 
is a winter colony of cottages and hotels on the ocean side of the peninsula, 
Daytona and Seabreeze being connected by bridges. On the ocean side of the 
peninsula the Ormond-Daytona beach, which is wonderfully hard and smooth, 
stretches for thirty miles without a break in its even surface, on which the hoof 
of a trotting horse makes no impression. 



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OCEAN BOULEVARD — SEABREEZE. 




RIDGEWOOD AVENUE — DAYTONA. 
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CLUB HOUSE OF THE FLORIDA EAST COAST AUTOMOBILE ASSO :iATION. 



Daytonawas founded in 1870 by Mathias Day, of Mansfield, O., who named it 
Tomoka; but in 1871 Thomas Saunders, the landscape gardener of Washington, 
gave it the name Daytona. The founders set out to make a New England set- 
tlement in the South, and the thriving, prosperous and growing village, which 
is essentially one of homes, is marked by the best characteristics of Massachu- 
setts town life. Something of its beauty is hinted in our illustration of Ridge- 
wood avenue, one of the many avenues and streets for which Daytona is famous. 
Opportunities for the wheelman are afforded, in miles of shady roads and cycle 
paths, and the visitor who comes here from a home town where cycling has "died 
out" is pleasantly surprised to see the number of wheels in use. Automobiles 
are numerous ; there are many miles of roads through the woods and along the 
river, complementing the beach courses. 

Excursions are made from Ormond, Daytona and Seabreeze south to Ponce 
Park, at Mosquito Inlet, eleven miles from Daytona, one of .he finest fishing 
grounds on the Coast. 

The Halifax afifords opportunities for sailing, and there is a large fleet of 
pleasure craft. The fishing for salt-water species is capital, the fish taken 
comprising drum, sheepshead, sea bass, pompano, cavalle and other varieties. 



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THE ORMOND-DAYTONA BEACH. 



"Its sand is composed largely of the shells of the coquina clam, or Donax, 
peculiar to this part of Florida. The shells are about one-half inch long and 
very thin. For ages nature has been rolling them up, washing them back into 
the surf and pulverizing them. Examined under the microscope each particle 
is round, unfit for mortar, builders say, because its smoothness prevents it from 
holding together ; yet, strange to contemplate, the very moment a wave leaves 
the wet, apparently soft beach, these round particles settle down into a cement 
almost as hard as asphalt, beyond the comprehension of one who has not seen 
it. Surely it must have been made for the automobile, for, regardless of weather 
conditions, there is no mud, no dust, tires are never heated owing to the 
moisture, and exploded tires are unknown. Here, too, the great dangers of 
road and track racing are entirely eliminated and man can never build a road 
as hard and smooth. Repairs are unnecessary, as twice each twenty-four hours 
it is entirely rebuilt by the tides. Immense holes may be dug, but the next tide 
hides every trace. Being almost level and with an average rise and fall of only 
2 feet 9 inches at extremely low tide, this beach is from 300 to 500 feet wide 
and can be used from two hours after until two hours before high tide, thus 
giving an average of seven to eight hours for automobiling some part of 
each day." 

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THE SPECTATORS IN FRONT OF THE CLUB HOUSE — ORMOND-DAYTONA MEET, 



THE EAST COAST. 53 

The automobiling opportunities are by no means confined to the beach. 
Driving has ahvays been in favor at Ormond and Daytona, and much attention 
has been given to good roads. The Ormond and Daytona drives are famous 
for their excellence and attractiveness. They lead in many directions, passing 
through charming scenery, and reaching many interesting points. One pene- 
trates dense tropical forest, leading to ancient stone ruins ; another follows the 
river to a modern plantation, hospitably thrown open to inspection ; a third 
takes us through hammock and pine woods to the Tomoka Cabin on the Tomoka 
River. A favorite route is from Ormond on the beach to Daytona and return 
by the Halifax River road ; or from Daytona one may soon go on to New 
Smyrna by the new hard shell road which for fifteen miles will closely follow 
the west bank of the river. The 35-mile round trip on the beach from the Inn 
to Smyrna Inlet can easily be made in one hour on a motor cycle. All these 
roads are adapted to the automobile, and every season finds upon them an 
increased number of machines. During the season of 1903-4, Mr. and Mrs. 
W. A. Adriance, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., ran their 1903 auto car over 1,200 
miles on the roads about Ormond without one road repair. 

Daytona is not alone in the possession of good roads. The streets and 
suburban drives of Jacksonville, New Smyrna, Orlando, De Land, Miami, 
Tampa, and other points are all good auto roads. 

Mr. Flagler's rock roads at Miami are a grand object lesson, and have given 
an impetus to the good roads movement, which has been taken up with much 
enthusiasm and is providing the East Coast country with a system of highways 
embodying the modern art of road building. Native material for roads is found 
in the coralline rock, which is soft and easily quarried, hardens upon exposure 
to air, and when crushed makes an admirable road metal. Another material 
extensively used is the oyster shell, drawn in abundant supply from the shell 
mounds along the coast, and another is the white marl of Ormond and Daytona. 

The roads already constructed, building and projected, form links of the 
great highway which has been planned to extend from Jacksonville south 350 
miles to Miami to connect those two cities and St. Augustine, Ormond and 
Daytona, New Smyrna, Rockledge, and West Palm Beach, with spurs to De 
Land and other points. This great highway will be a broad, hard-surfaced 
boulevard, adapted to modern vehicles. 

The good roads movement now popular in the State, is promoted by the 
County Commissioners and Good Roads Association of Florida. The Associa- 
tion covers Florida. Hundreds of miles of roads are planned; every mile means 
opportunities for automobilists, both residents and tourists. The advent of the 
cruising launch and that of the touring automobile have opened to winter visitor 
and resident a new Florida, the resources and compensations of which are as 
yet hardly realized. 



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THE ROCKLEDGE SHORE OVERLOOKING INDIAN RIVER. 



New Smyrna, thirteen miles south of Daytona, on Hillsborough River, is the 
oldest settlement on the East Coast south of St. Augustine ; and is historically 
famous for the Greek and Minorcan colony, 1,500 strong, established by Dr. 
Turnbull in 1767. All along the river bank for four miles north and three miles 
south are scattered the ruins of old Minorcan houses, with coquina stone floors, 
chimneys and wells, curbed with hewn stone. The drainage canals, indigo vats 
and ruins of old sugar mills indicate large industries. Other ruins known as the 
"Spanish Mission," or "Columbus Chapel," and "Rock House" are by some 
people thought to antedate the time of Turnbull. New Smyrna beach stretches 
south for miles, with a firm, smooth surface, and is lined along the blufifs with 
the cottages of Coronado and other summer and winter residence colonies. New 
Smyrna is an outfitting point for fishing and camping parties. 

From New Smyrna a branch line of the Florida East Coast Railway System 
runs to Blue Springs, on the St. John's River, thirty-two miles west. This is the 
route to De Land and to Lake Helen. 

RaCKLEDGE is named from the bold coquina ledges, which lend a picturesque 
beauty to the shore line. The foot walk for several miles on the high river bank, 
leading through one splendid orange grove to another, is very fascinating. There 
is a grand outlook across the river to Merritt's Island, which is also populous with 
villas, groves and gardens. The sailboats and ■ rowboats and launches, the 
pedestrian parties one continually meets on the river path, the well-contented 
occupants of the elegant mansions that front the river adjoining on their broad 
verandas, the dolcc far uicntc leisure of the Rockledge winter resident, the crange 




A TANGLE OF WILDERNESS. 
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THOMPSON CREEK, ORMOND. 



pickers amid the golden fruit, and the skilled landscape gardening that emblazons 
the walks and grounds of the hotels with brilliant tropical flowers, all unite to 
make Rockledge deservedly and permanently popular with winter tourists. A 
favorite excursion is to the beautiful estate well named Fairyland. The pineapple 
growing district extends from here south to Palm Beach and beyond. 

The lagoons, commonly known as the Ixdiax River, make a continuous 
stretch of water scenery for more than 250 miles, and with Biscayne Bay, now 
united with Lake Worth, give an uninterrupted water course of 350 miles, com- 
bining more of fascinating variety and beauty than any other in the United States. 
These connected inland waters vary from weird and twisting narrows 100 feet in 
width to spreading lake-like expanses from three to six miles wide. Sometimes 
they look out of inlets upon the ocean, and again into the mouths of winding 
creeks or fresh-water rivers that break the western shore. At one point the 
Indian River channels separate and wind among wooded islands, making one 
think of the lochs of Scotland. 

Fort Pierce is noted as a winter resort much visited by sportsmen. It is in 




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ORANGES AT ROCKLEDGE. 



the pineapple district. The section is one of interest, too, because of the rehcs 
of a bygone age and a vanished people ; there are Indian mounds, and the earth- 
works of old Fort Pierce, suggestive memorials of the days when the Seminoles 
were making a hopeless stand against fate. Back of Fort Pierce is the home of 
one branch of the Seminole Indians, and they may here often be seen trading 
their alligator skins, plumes and game for ammunition and supplies. 

Lake Worth axd Palm Beach. — Southward 300 miles from Jacksonville is 
Palm Beach, on Lake Worth. Here we enter the cocoanut region and the trop- 
ical paradise of Florida. Lake Worth is, like the other waters of the Indian River 
system, a salt-water lagoon, twenty-two miles long by an average of a mile in 
width, and separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a peninsula about a mile wide. 
Here is situated the Royal Poinciana, one of the largest hotels in the world, 
and royal indeed in respect both of its entirely unique surroundings and its 
magnificent appointments. Fronting the beautiful lake and commanding also 
the ocean view, it has the peculiar advantage of a lordly grove of cocoanut palms 
and the finest environments of tropical gardening. The magnificent hotel does 
not stand alone in respect of such environments ; for several miles along the lake 
front range other beautiful and highly improved estates with similar adornments 
of cocoanut palms and a great variety of other tropical flora. 

The climate is very greatly influenced and tempered both in winter and sum- 
mer by the Gulf Stream, which passes close to the shore at this point. The nor- 
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PALM BEACH, LAKE WORTH, SHOWING WHITEHALL, RESIDENCE OF MR. HENRY M. FLAGLER. 



Whitehall, one of the stately homes of America, is appropriately in the Spanish style of architecture, 
the house, built around an interior court or patio, and having for external features the columned portico, 
pure white walls and red tiled roof glowing against the sky. The entrance hall, 110 feet long, with grand 
marble stairway and domed ceiling, opens into apartments treated in various styles of decoration and 
furnishing— the Library in that of the Italian Renaissance, the Salon in that of the period of Louis XVI., 
the ballroom, in white and gold, m the style of Louis X\'., the dining room in that of Francois I. 

Tropical plants and trees from all parts of the world are gathered here. 
Walks shaded by groves of cocoanut palms are laid out in geometrical patterns, 
bordered with concrete curbs, and with lawns protected by curved sea-walls of 
concrete and coquina on the lake front. Oleanders, hibiscus and passion flowers 
are in bloom. Mangoes, guavas, limes, lemons, oranges, figs, sapodillas, date 
palms, !)ananas, pineapples and early vegetables are common in all the gardens ; 
some have strawberries ripe in January, and tomatoes in abundance in March. 
Rubber trees, royal poinciana, paradise, coffee, traveler's and numbers of curious 
trees ornament the gardens, and the gnarled, straggling arms of great live oaks, 
covered with knobs and bunches of two varictes of orchids and hanging moss, by 
weird contrast add to the beauties. Walks twenty feet wide and a half mile long, 
bordered with cocoanut palms, oleanders and azaleas, lead from the lake to the 
ocean with a steep and narrow beach, upon which with a magnificent surf the 
sea breaks, in color a clear, bright, ultramarine blue. 

Palm Beach owes to a shipwreck the cocoanut trees which have given to it 




GRAPE-FRUIT. 



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IN THE ROYAL POINCIANA. 



distinguishing- beauty and name. Years ago the Spanish brig Providencia, 
cocoanut-laden, was cast away ofif this coast, and the cocoanuts were washed 
ashore to find growth in a congenial soil. There was quite as much romance in 
the coming of the date pahn to Florida ; from Syria the conquering Moors carried 
it to Spain ; and from Spain the Spaniards brought it here. The sago, fan, royal 
and other palms have been introduced. The palms indigenous to Florida include 
the low saw or scrub palmetto, which covers vast areas of the State ; and the 
cabbage palmetto, so called because of the cabbage-like growth, which is edible. 
There are other palms on the Keys. 

On the western shore of the lake are large pineapple plantations, each year 
increasing in numbers and in production. Thirty miles to the west is Lake 
Okeechobee, with settlements of the Seminole Indians, of whom some notes are 
given on another page. Lake Worth and its vicinity, like all the southern East 
Coast countrv, has developed rapidly since the advent of the railway, which has 
converted it from a region secluded because difficult of access, and has put it in 
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WHITEHALL — RESIDENCE OF HENRY M. FLAGLER, PALM BEACH. 

The Hotel Royal Poincl\n.\ takes its name from the beautiful royal poin- 
ciana tree (Poinciana rcgia), which abounds here, and which is famed for the 




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TEA UNDER THE PALMS. 



blazing brilliance of its summer bloom. The hotel grounds are enriched with 
rare plants and shrubs and trees, brought hither from every quarter of the globe. 
Among them are specimens of the traveler's tree, pandanus or screws palm, 
arecas, date, royal and fishtail palms, avocado or alligator pear, sapodillo, loquot 
or Japanese plum, grevillea and others. The afternoon teas in the grounds of 
the Royal Poinciana present many animated pictures. The famous palmetto 
avenue, from lake to ocean, leads from the Royal Poinciana to the Breakers, a 
companion hotel fronting the sea, the beach pavilion with it"^ immense swim- 
ming pool, and the fishing pier. The broad beach affords excellent surf bathing 




MR. FOSTER S INFORMATION OFFICE, PALM UEAfll. 



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THE BREAKERS. 




RUEBER TREE — PALM BEACH. 



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the year around. The Gulf Stream here comes within a mile and a half of the 
coast, and south bound vessels pass very close inshore to avoid the current. 
The lake front north and south of the Royal Poinciana grounds is lined with 
handsome winter homes. South of Whitehall are the Belford, Hood, Pendleton, 
Clarke and Roberts residences. The five rusty relics of cannon on the water 
front came from a Spanish wreck about twelve miles south. The two Spanish 
cannon from Morro Castle were brought here by Mr. C. J. Clarke, of Pittsburg. 
A mile north of the hotel grounds is the church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea. 

Nearly all the sea fish are found in the lake, such as bluefish, spotted sea trout, 
cavalle, red snapper, barracuda, pompano, sawfish, mullet and redfish, or channel 
bass. Tarpon are not found here, although they are caught north and south of 
this point. The principal fishing is outside the inlet for kingfish, of which enor- 
mous catches are recorded. The kingfish is very game, and the fishing, with its 
surroundings, is a favorite amusenient. There are numerous boats, with ex- 
perienced men to handle them, and having thorough knowledge of the grounds. 

South of Palm Beach the railroad runs through fruit and vegetable districts, 
where the pineapple and tomato fields appear interminable. At Fort Lauderdale 
we are on the edge of the Everglades. This is a trading post of the Seminole 



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MIAMI FROM HOTEL ROYAL PALM. 



Indians, and bare-legged individuals of the tribe may usually be seen from the 
car windows. The Seminoles will be found also at Miami. 

Thirty-nine miles south of Palm Beach, on Biscayne Bay, is Miami, the magic 
city, as its citizens call it, not without reason. Its growth has been like that of 
a western mushroom town, but the development is of the most substantial and 
permanent character. Miami is thoroughly modern and up to date, with fine 
streets, well-stocked business establishments, handsome residences, costly public 
buildings, banks, churches, schools, mills and factories, a constantly enlarging 
variety of industries and important and growing trade interests. 




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OLD FORT DALLAS. 
Copyright, 1904, by the Rotograph Co. 



The Miami River, which is the principal eastern drainage stream of the Ever- 
glades, at a point four miles from Fort Dallas, narrowing in its bed and rushing 
in tumbling, swirHng, foaming rapids over coral rock, presents a genuine novelty 
in this land of smooth-fllowing waters. Arch Creek, another outlet of the Ever- 
glades, takes its name from an arch of coral. Boating, saiHng and fishing are 
favorite amusements at Miami, and there is maintined a large fleet of launches 
and dories for the winter season. Sailing and fishing excursions are made to 
Soldier Key, fifteen miles, south of Cape Florida; Norris Cut, Fowey Rock, 
twelve miles ; Arch Creek, five hours ; the House of Refuge, seven miles ; Cape 
Florida Light, up the Miami River, and to other points. Excellent roads have 
been built to Cocoanut Grove and beyond to the south, and north and west 
through the native woods and amid fruit groves and vegetable farms. 




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A BIT OF PINEAPPLE FIELD. 



Bay Biscayne is a lagoon sheltered from the Atlantic by numerous keys and 
coral islands ; it is forty miles in length and from five to ten miles wide, with a 
prevailing depth of from six to ten feet; the shores are lined with palms and 
mangroves, and a profusion and variety of tropical growth ; the blue water is of 
remarkable clearness. These elements unite to make the bay one of the most 
beautiful cruising grounds in the world ; and many yachts have their winter 
rendezvous here. On the west shore, at Cocoanut Grove, embowered amid 
cocoanuts and royal palms, is the club house of the Bay Biscayne Yacht Club, 
whose pennant bears the legend, "25 Degrees North Lat. B. B. Y. C," The 
water of the bay is of such crystal clearness that it reveals, even to great depths, 
the wealth of vegetable and animal life everywhere present. This submarine 
life is a never-failing attraction ; there are portions of Bay Biscayne, notably the 
Turtle Harbor, which rival the far-famed sea gardens of Nassau. 

Pineapple growing was a Florida industry in the forties ; but only within 
recent years has it assumed commercial importance. The pineapple is a species 
of air-plant, and belongs to the same family as the tillandsia or "Spanish moss." 
The mature plant is 2^2 feet in height, with a spread of 2 feet across ; the fruit 
is borne on a stalk in the center. Each plant produces one pine in a season. 
Pineapples are grown from suckers, slips or the crowns of the pines; they are sef 
out in midsummer. 



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The Seminole Indians are seen at various points on the East Coast from Fort 
Pierce south to Biscayne Bay. They are the survivors in Florida of a tribe which 
once engaged the anxious attention of the entire country. In 1835 disputes over 
the boundaries of the Indian reservation and quarrels over fugitive slaves, which 
the Seminoles were accused of harboring, led to the Seminole War — the most 
costly and disastrous of the minor wars of the United States. At the end of seven 
years, in 1842, the Indians were subdued, captured and transported to the reser- 
vation assigned them, where the remnant yet remain in the Indian Territory. A 
portion of the tribe evaded deportation and betook themselves to this Southern 
country. They hid in the wilderness Everglades and still remain in tacit rebellion, 
and regard the white man with suspicious enmity. While one nation, they are 
divided into three tribes — the Big Cypress, Cow Creek and Miamis. The Big 
Cypress Indians live in the vicinity of Fort Myers, between Caloosahatchee 
River and the Gulf of Mexico; the Miamis live back of Miami, on Biscayne Bay; 
and the Cow Creeks are situated back of Fort Pierce and the St. Lucie River, 
which empties into the Indian River. They have no reservation, no land has ever 
been assigned them by the Government. Their dwellings are palmetto huts and 
framed houses ; they have horses, dogs, pigs and cattle ; and raise corn, sweet 
potatoes and other vegetables. Flour or starch made from the coontie or wild 
cassava has always been a staple article of food. The Florida Indians have cul- 
tivated the soil from primitive days ; note the corn and other vegetables in the 




DR. JIMMIE TUSTANOGEE WITH HIS TWO WIVES AND THE CHILDREN. 



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drawings of Le Moyne, who 
came to Florida with the 
French expedition of 1563. 

The dress of the men con- 
sists of a turban of folded 
shawls or handkerchiefs and 
decorated with a plume, a 
calico shirt, usually of many 
colors, with a kerchief or 
cravat about the neck ; and, 
on occasion, leggins and 
moccasins of tanned deer- 
skin. The scalp-lock is care- 
fully protected. The Florida 
Indian's fashion in head 
gear has not changed in 
general character in centuries. Compare the turban of the Seminole of to-day 
with Osceola's in 1838 (page 25), and again with that of the chief Satourioua 
in 1563. The women wear their hair cut short in front and coiled behind. Their 
dress is a long skirt with short waist or jacket. The jacket is decorated with 
silver or gold coins pounded thin and cut into various shapes. About the neck 




ANCIENT FLORIDA INDIAN COSTUME. 
From a drazving by Le Moyne in 156^. 




INDIAN MODE OF HUNTING ALLIGATORS IN FLORIDA. 
From Le Moyne's Narrative of the French Expedition in 1563. 



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of the new-born girl is placed a necklace of beads ; others are added as she 
grows older, until the mature woman is fairly burdened beneath the weight of 
her necklaces ; and then with the coming of old age they are gradually discarded. 
The women are skillful with the needle ; some have sewing machines. 

The Indian canoe is a dugout of cypress ; it is propelled by sail or push-pole. 
In these craft the hunters go to sea to harpoon manatee. The Seminole depends 
largely upon the chase ; he is equipped with the latest models of Winchester arms 
and is an expert shot. These Indians shoot from hip or elbow without sighting. 




FLOaiDA INDIANS CARRYING THEIR CROPS TO THE STOREHOUSES. 
From a drawing' by the French artist Le Moyne\in 1563. 



There were brought in to Fort Lauderdale in a recent year, by the Seminoles, 
for barter, 5,000 alligator skins ; the number killed by the Indians in the State 
that year probably exceeded 7,000. 

Once a year, in the last of Jvme or the first of July, the people gather from 
far and near for the Green Corn Dance, an anniversary which has been observed 
from time immemorial. It is a time of coming to judgment, and the infliction 
of punishments, of feasting and making merry. At this time also the marriages 
take place. The custom followed is one of those survivals common among 
savage races of the old days when wives were taken by capture ; the girl runs 
over a certain marked out course, and the man pursues ; if he overtakes her — 
and whether he does or not depends altogether upon whether she wishes him 
to — they live happy ever after. 



PICTURESQUE NASSAU. 

The passage across ihe Gulf Stream to the "Isles of June" is in effect but a 
slight extension of the Florida tour. From Miami to Nassau the distance is only 
145 miles — a short excursion, which may hardly be said to involve going to sea. 

For the tourist Nassau has many attractions ; its climate is peculiarly grateful 
to the fugitive from the rigors and sudden changes of the Northern winter and 
spring. Basking in floods of perpetual sunshine and swept by soft ocean breezes, 
the Bahamas enjoy a temperature which is remarkably equable ; from October 
to June the mercury ranges from 65 to 80 degrees ; official records show for 
January 70 degrees, February 71 degrees, March ^2 degrees, and April 75 degrees. 
This is a summer land, though the calendar marks the winter season; and the 
whole aspect of the island is of summer and summer life. The houses are built 
with generous piazzas and latticed verandas, and are embowered amid roses, 
jasmines and oleanders. Orange, lemon and lime are everywhere. Slender 




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THE NASSAU MARKET. 



palms uplift their plumes against the sky. Here we are in the tropics, but the 
tropics tempered by the gratefully invigorating influences of the sea. 

Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas. The Governor, who is appointed by 
the Crown, resides here. The population numbers 15,000, of whom four-fifths 
are colored. The city is admirably governed ; the white residents are for the most 
part descendants of English colonial families ; there is here that spirit of hospi- 
talitv which is never wanting in countries where the doors always stand open. 
The island is of coral formation. The native rock is an admirable road-building 
material ; the roads of New Providence are noted for their excellence, and driving 
and wheeling are favorite anmsements. One may visit the palm groves and make 
test of the milk fresh from the cocoanut ; prove the excellence of the Bahama 
pineapples, newly picked from the stem ; or inspect the plantations of sisal hemp, 
vv'hich looks like the century plant. 

The water excursions include a visit to the Sea Gardens, a point in the chan- 
nel where the bottom is covered with fan-leaf coral of many vivid hues, amid 
which swim fishes of graceful form and brilliant colors. Rowboats are provided 
with glass plates in the bottom, through which the marine life may be studied. 
Night excursions are made to the "Lake of Fire." This is an artificial pon</ 



NASSAU. 



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FORT FINCASTLE OR SHIP FORT. 



which was built as a storage reservoir for live fish and green turtles, and which 
has become phosphorescent in an extraordinary degree. 

The island is of coral formation, and one peculiarity to attract attention is the 
prevailing absence of soil and the astonishing way the trees grow from the rock — 
or, for that matter, on the top of a wall. There are no running streams, no wild 
animals except hares, and of snakes only the innocent and harmless chicken- 
snake. 

I>ife in Nassau is for the most part repose and light-hearted, care-free indo- 
lence. The principal industries of the Bahamas are sponging and wrecking. In 
old days the place was a secure stronghold of the famous pirate Elack-Beard, 
legends of whose escapades, exploits and ferocity still linger about the island. 
During our Civil War Nassau was headquarters of the blockade runners, who 
sailed from here to run the blockades of Confederate ports ; there were three hun- 
dred such entries and departures in a single year. In those times cotton was king, 
and the value of Nassau imports and exports amounted in one year to fifty mil- 
lions of dollars. 



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THE QUEEN S STAIRCASE. 



The feature of Nassau which is most pleasing is the wonderfully brilliant 
coloring of the sea, in shades of green and pink, purple and blue, in all the rich 
tones and combinations and changing effects of the sky and clouds at sunset. The 
coloring is due in part to the character of the bottom ; a sand bottom gives the 
light color, and stretches of vegetable growth cause the dark shading. The 
sheltered harbor, the shining beaches of. outlying keys, with the vivid green of 
their verdure, and the deepening tones of the sea, blending in the distance with 
the sky, so that one may not determine where the sea ends and the sky begins — 
all this, as the sun lowers in the west, afifords an entrancing scene, to look upon 
which is the rarest pleasure in Nassau and the best remembered picture of a 
holiday in the Bahamas. 

The Queen's Staircase is a series of steps cut in the side of an old stone quarry 
and leading up from the street below to the height on which stands Fort Fin- 
castle. The fort, built in 1789, is now a ruin. Its resemblance to a vessel has given 
it the name of Ship Fort, and the likeness is enhanced by the flags on the staff 
which signal the sighting of ships at sea. Fort Charlotte, a massive fortification 



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CEIBA OR SILK COTTON TREE. 



hewn out of the solid rock, on the hill west of the town, also serves as a signal 
station to report to the town the movements of shipping. The fort, completed 
in 1788, was named after Queen Charlotte. An obelisk on the hill near the fort 
is a mark for pilots entering the harbor. On the esplanade at the foot of the hill 
a modest monument commemorates the heroism of five men who in 1861 lost their 
lives "whilst gallantly volunteering their services in the effort to save two men 
belonging to the pilot boat which had been upset by a heavy sea." A third forti- 
fication is Fort Montague, on the shore at the eastern entrance to the harbor; 
like the others, it is in ruin ; and the old cannon have no story to tell of valiant 
defense against a Spanish foe. 

Among the novel forms of vegetation which interest the visitor the most 
remarkable is the ancient ceiba or silk cotton tree near the public buildings, whose 
immense buttresses are shown in our illustration. Close by is a grove of the 
royal poinciana. Another tree to attract notice is the whistling bean, named from 
the sound produced by the wind blowing upon its seed pods ; it is also called "old 
woman's tongue" because it is never quiet. The small boys importune the 
stranger to buy the "sand box bean," a seed pod which takes its name from the 
old ink sanding box, which is resembles. 





HILLSBOEO RIVER AT SULPHUR SPRINGS — TAMPA. 

TAMPA. 

Tampa, the metropolis of South Florida, is situated at the head of navigation 
on the largest bay to be found on the entire coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The 
site is rich in historical lore. Four hundred years ago Narvaez and DeSoto 
landed on the shores of the bay, disembarking their troops and supplies, and 
made their way overland in search of the rivers running with gold. From that 
time on the territory contiguous to Hillsborough Bay and Old Tampa Bay was 
the scene of struggle of the pioneers to gain a foothold in the new land. The 
country was thickly populated with Indians, the last vestige of whom are seeking 
their final stand in the fastnesses of the Everglades. Their mounds of shell 
still remain as monuments to their primitive mode of "wireless telegraphy." 
From the keys off the sonth mainland, around the fringe of the Gulf for six 
hundred or more miles, these mounds stood high, and from them were wig- 
wagged signals, or smoke fires gave forth their codes. 

For three hundred and fifty years, the beauties and advantages of this 
country laid dormant, but when its charms and possibilities became known, the 
North-world flocked to its hospitable shores, and to-day eighty thousand or 
more people populate Hillsborough County, of which Tampa is the county seat. 

Tampa has a climatic flavor peculiarly its own. The Gulf of Mexico lies to 
the south of it; to the west Old Tampa Bay, to the east Hillsborough Bay, 
while the city is divided by the Hillsborough River. The summer heat is cooled 
by the Gulf Stream breezes, while the wintry blasts from the north are dissipated 
by the same element. Winter or summer, life in Tampa is a delight. Fogs 
are a rarity, and the air is likened by world-wide travelers unto that of Italy, 
famed for its dry salt air. That these climatic conditions are an asset further 
than for health or comfort is attested by the location in Tampa of nearly two 
hundred cigar factories, making 300,000,000 high-priced clear Havana cigars 
annually. These factories are in Tampa because of its equable climate. 

The city lies above the water of the bay, from ten to sixty feet, a natural 
crown, superbly jewelled by the hand of nature. Surrounded by verdant lands, 
studded by the stately pines, or the picturesque cypress groves, decorated by 
moss and vine like a bower of state, checked here and there with orchards of 
oranges and grape fruit, the city reposes in the sure retreat of a beneficent 

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PANORAMIC VIEW OF THAT PART OF TAMPA 
City Park in foreground. 

climate and splendid beauty. Southward lies the placid bay, its horizon a 
wavering thread of silver where dip blue-arching skies. Within this amphi- 
theater lies Tampa — a city of splendid and picturescjue homes, each with its 
vernal lawn and perpetual flower-decked garden, beautiful to the eye and 
charming to the esthetic sense. 

There is much to interest the tourist in Tampa. First comes "Little 
Havana," the only Cuban city in America, where 20,000 Cubans and Spaniards 
live, speaking their language, with their quaint bazars, their coffee shops, 
casinos, theaters and clubs. A Spanish dinner at one of the world-famed 
Spanish restaurants is a novelty long to be remembered. A visit to one of the 
cigar factories, showing the scrupulous cleanliness of the places, watching from 
one hundred to one thousand cigar rollers at work, listening to the "reader," 
perched on a balcou}-. reading them the latest news, or the latest novel — this 
is something curious in factory work. 

There are three theaters : a mile track where the swiftest ponies contend for 
supremacy for one hundred days each winter; Ballast Point, Sulphur Springs, 
where flows 50,000 gallons of water each minute ; Palma Ceia vSprings and 
DeSoto Park, a natural park of palmettos — all reached by trolley; and Frazier's 
P>each, Indian Rock, Rocky Point. Riverview and other charming places — 
reached h\ hard roads. 




THE BEAUTIFUL ALAFIA RIVER — TAMPA. 



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LYING EAST OF THE HILLSBORO RIVER. 
Hillsboro Bav to right. 



Tampa has nearly one lumdred miles of vitrified brick paving, and over 
two hundred miles of continuous hard-surfaced roads, and is the Mecca of 
automobiles. The drives border the bay. or river, and traverse along the orange 
groves, skirling long lines of blooming roses, miles of stately palms and the 
feathered plume-like pines. Here you pass under a bower of rugged old oaks 
festooned with Florida moss. The roads are endless in the charm of variety and 
constant happy surprises — vistas of delight and ways of pleasure. 

From Tampa, by the coastwise steamers, making daily round trips, can be 
visited the famous West Coast resorts of St. Petersburg, Green Springs, 
Sarasota, the land of IManatee, the fortifications of Forts Dade and De Scio, 
Pass-a-Grille, on the Gulf of INlexico, where you can battle with the silver king, 
the tarpon, the gamest fish known, attaining 200 pounds' weight. 

The fishing in the waters about Tampa cannot be excelled. Every known 
south sea fish abounds in these waters, from the little shiner to the black whale 
sixty feet long. Edible fish, like mackerel, drum, trout, red fish, grouper, pompano, 
jack, king, bonita, runners, rock hind, snapper, porgy, and a score of others are 
easy prey to the Izaak Waltons with a bucket full of minnows. There is spice 
in the sport, for you are as liable to hook a small shark, or a bone fish, or 
something else which is apt to set a nervous man back in his growth. There 
is also great fun in shark baiting, and in going after clams, scollops, turtles, 
stone-crabs, ovsters and other sea foods. 




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FEDERAL BUILDING AND CATHEDRAL AT TAMPA. 



The land sailor can get enjoyment by visiting the small lakes, where bream 
and perch and bass and other fresh-water fish are plentiful. 

A few miles from Tampa, at Lake Butler, can be had wild turkey and deer, 
and other wild game. A side trip, ninety miles south, is the hunter's paradise. 

Twenty miles west of Tampa is Tarpon Springs, and below it Clearwater and 
Belleaire, Dunedin, Ozona, and other resort towns. These places can be reached 
by rail. At Tarpon Springs 3,000 Greeks are engaged in sponging, and their 
kraals are very interesting to visit. 

Twenty thousand tourists visit Tampa and its surrounding resorts each 
v»'inter and find enjoyment every minute in its many attractions. There is not a 
dull moment. 

Tampa's climate and its pleasures will always invite the health seeker and 
the tourist, but more surely will its advantages and resources invite the man 
in full health and strength who desires to invest his money and his best energy. 
Tampa is a playground, and, at the same time, another of America's workshops. 
Where the man of means brings his toys, the workman brings his tools. 

Br,\dentown is about fifty miles south of Tampa, on the Manatee River. 
The site of Bradentown, on a high blufT overlooking the river, has been the 
secret of its remarkable bealthfulness, and whether the breeze comes from the 
eastward across miles of unbroken pine forest, or brings from the westward the 
briny atmosphere from the Gulf, it carries vigor and strength, its temperature 
seldom being below 50° or above 80°. 



OTHER FLORIDA RESORTS. 

The St. John's River. — The tourist will hardly be satisfied with the glimpses 
of this noble stream obtained from the car window as the train crosses it at 
Jacksonville or Palatka, but will plan an excursion by steamboat, in which way 
alone the picturesque features of the river may be seen. The lower portions of 
the St. John's are a succession of magnificent reaches, or inland seas, the shores 
lined with forests of live oak, sweet gimi, pine, magnolia and palmettos. In its 
upper (southern) portion the vegetation becomes more tropical ; the river now 
narrows to a tortuous passage and again opens into beautiful lakes, and the 
traveler is charmed with the novel scenery and the changing panorama. 

De Land is situated in the orange grove section, between the St. John's River 
and the Atlantic Ocean, lOO miles south of Jacksonville, on the Atlantic Coast 
Line. The town is noted for its salubrious climate and healthfulness, and for 
the enterprise, intelligence and high character of its people. The city is for miles 
surrounded by forests of the yellow southern pine, enriching the air with balsam. 

EuSTis, on Lake Eustis and surrounded by hills, has good shooting and 
fishing, with woodland drives and opportunities for boating. Mrs. Palmer's 
School, kindergarten and primary, has been established at Eustis for the children 
of resident and visiting families. Circulars of information about the school may 
be had at the Standard Guide Travel Ofifices. Eustis is on the Atlantic Coast 
Line ; also reached by the Seaboard Air Line via Tavares. 

Key West is reached by steamer from Miami or Tampa. The island 
(Spanish Cayo Hncso — Bone Key) is a low coral island lying sixty miles south of 
Cape Sable, and the town is the southernmost city in the United States. 
Havana is only ninety miles south. The island as the key of the Gulf is an 
important strategic point ; it has one of the largest naval stations in the country, 
and is defended by Fort Taylor. Not far to the westward, on Garden Key of the 
Dry Tortugas, is the great fortification of Fort Jefferson. 

Altamonte Springs is located 138 miles south of Jacksonville on the main 
line of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, in the center of Orange County. The 
country is high, rolling, pine-covered lands, dotted with hundreds of spring- fed 
lakes. There are 1,100 lakes in Orange County. Bearing orange groves are 
numerous. 

Orlando, the county seat of Orange County, is situated in the central por- 
tion of the Florida peninsula, 147 miles south of Jacksonville, and 90 miles north 
of Tampa. The region is dotted all over with pretty lakes, thirteen of them being 
within the corporate limits of Orlando. Fish are plentiful in all of them. 

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Some Shooting and Fishing Resorts. 

St. Petersburg, situated on the west coast of Florida, surrounded by the 
waters of Tampa Bay, within the influence of the mild and balmy breezes of the 
Gulf of Mexico, and the health breathing odor from the piney woods affords a 
most dehghtful place in which to spend the winter months. 

Fort Myers is situated on the south bank of the Caloosahatchee River, 
eighteen miles east from the Gulf. The surrounding country is well stocked 
with game ; and the fishing here is famous. Fort Myers has for a number of 
years been recognized as the greatest tarpon fishing resort in the country. 

BoYNTON, twelve miles south of Palm Beach, affords good fishing, shoot- 
ing and water sports. 

Cocoa, on the Indian River 173 miles south of Jacksonville, is a favorite 
point for sportsman and angler. 

Sarasota, on the West Coast, affords shooting and fishing, and is a well 
known haunt of the sportsman. 

Maitland is in the lake district of Orange County. There is good fishing 
for bass and other fresh-water species, and quail, deer and wild turkey reward 
the sportsman. 



^^^4lMllM4WiMiiMMiilttiHil 




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A GULF TARPON. 
From Forest and Stream. 



On the H^ay Home. 

Savannah, with its twenty-four parks and its broad streets shade! with 
magnificent oaks, its many handsome residences, and its flower gardens which 
bloom the year around, is one of the most attractive cities in the South. Forsyth 
Park, the Pulaski Monument, and the Jasper Monument should have attention, 
while the busy scenes of Bay street and the river front offer an excellent oppor- 
tunity to study the vast commercial interests of which Savannah is the center. 
Bonaventure Cemetery is renowned for its ancient live-oaks, trees as majestic and 
impressive as any to be found on the Atlantic Coast. 

Augusta, Ga., with an elevated situation in the pine ridge section, has long 
been noted as an enjoyable resort in winter and spring. The average winter 
temperature for December to March inclusive is 54° F. at 8 o'clock A. M. 

Atlanta, Ga., in its enterprise and growth as a commercial center, is typical 
of the prosperity of the new South. The tourist will find in the city and sur- 
roundings abundant interest and entertainment. 

Greenvillk, S. C, has well appointed golf links, with many miles of good 
roads, where pleasant scenery and an agreeable climate make automobiling a 
delight. 

Florence, S. C, has a delightful winter climate, and is at a point where the 
coming of the first days of spring imparts a peculiar charm to the soft southern 
air. 

Charleston is full of objects of interest to every American. Here in the 
harbor is Fort Sumter, with dismantled walls, but flying the Stars and Stripes 
above it. At Moultrieville is the grave of Osceola, the Seminole, who died while 
imprisoned in Fort Moultrie. The new fortifications just finished by the United 
States Government are the largest in extent on the Atlantic coast. The Mag- 
nolia Gardens, filled with japonicas, rose bushes and azaleas, present a spectacle 
of floral magnificence, and the continent may be challenged to equal the superb 
effect. Artists make pilgrimages to Charleston in the spring to paint its won- 
derful flowers. The Chicora Golf Club has a fine course, with cozy club house, 
where tourists will be welcome. There are miles of fine shell roads for the car- 
riage and bicycle, leading along broad avenues lined with handsome residences 
and through groves of ancient oaks draped with silver moss. On the road 
around the Battery an excellent view of the harbor and many historical points of 
interest is obtained. Then there is old St. Michael's, the ante-Revolutionary 
Church, with its historic chimes and tall tower. 

Chattanooga may well have a place in one's itinerary. Historical asso- 
ciations cluster thick about it — Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Chicka- 
mauga. The National Park, to which State after State has contributed its 

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memorials of those who served in the Civil War, has made Chattanooga a point 
of pious pilgrimage for many thousands. The view from the bluff of Lookout 
Mountain is one of the most imposing and at the same time one of the most beau- 
tiful mountain prospects to be found in America. 

Southern Pines, in the Sand-Hill region of North Carolina, has had a 
steadily progressive growth in the favor of tourists as a convenient and advan- 
tageous stopping place between North and South. The situation is high and 
dry, there are ozone-gi/ing pine forests, and the climate in the autumn and 
spring months is mild and enjoyable. 

"The Land of the Sky" is that portion of Western North Carolina lying 
between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Iron, Smoky and Unaka ranges of 
Eastern Tennessee. It is a superb elevated plateau. Asheville, that Mecca of 
health-seekers, the spot best known among the resorts of this splendid region, 
stands higher above the sea level (2,288 feet) than any other city in America 
east of the Rockies. The visitor will find Asheville a progressive, modern city. 
Tryon is in the mountain country of Western North Carolina, a region of 
fine natural scenery and having a climate which renders it enjoyable as a winter, 
spring and summer resort. One may w^ell break the journey north for proving 
the pleasures of a stay at Tryon. 

Hot Springs, thirty-five miles from Asheville, takes its name from thermal 
v/aters which are of established repute. As a tourist resort the place has also 
the attractions of an agreeable climate and the provision of outdoor amusements. 
Richmond, the venerable capital of the James, has many attractions in its 
beautiful site and picturesque surroundings, and its historic associations. The 
Capitol building, which dates from the last century, contains with other treasured 
heirlooms of the past Houdon's Statue of Washington, a copy of which is in the 
National Statuary Hall at Washington. Capitol Square has for chief adorn- 
ment Crawford's noble work, the Washington Monument, and here, too, are 
statues of Clay and Stonewall Jackson, and elsewhere the Lee Monument. 

Old Point Comfort holds an unique place. Situation, climate, scenery and 
surroundings conspire to make it the most popular of all-the-year-around 
seaside resorts. The locality is one rendered ever famous by the momentous 
events which took place here in the sea conflicts of the Civil War. From the 
hotel piazzas one looks out over the broad waters where, in their terrific duel, 
the Monitor and the Merrimac changed the modes of naval warfare. Old Point 
is the seat of Fort Monroe, the largest fortification on the continent, and Hamp- 
ton Roads is a rendezvous of the White Squadron. Proximity to Washington 
and ease of access from New York make it the favorite resort of many distin- 
guished people, and its social features most brilliant. 

Hot Springs, Virginia, on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, is at an elevation 
of 2,500 feet in a picturesque valley, amid magnificent mountain surroundings. 
The springs, which give the place its name, have been famous for generations ; 
to-day Hot Springs maintains its prestige as one of the most important and 
fashionable health and pleasure resorts of the continent. 



Cuba. 



*** The "Standard Guide to Cuba" and the "Standard Guide to Havana," the new handbooks for tourists, 
published by Messrs. Foster & Reynolds, are very complete in scope, beautiful in illustration and prac- 
tical in their usefulness to travelers. See advertisement on another page. 

Cuba is truly tropical. The lush vegetation is that of the torrid zone. The 
encircling seas give the island a climate which, in winter and spring, is delicious. 
As surely as the sunrise, comes the sea breeze to temper the heat. The atmos- 
phere is marvelously clear and transparent. The beauty of the scenery is a 
revelation — the tinted seas, the mountain ranges, lovely valleys and highly culti- 
vated plains in a succession of panoramas which surprise and delight. The 
attractions are endless. The island is healthful; there is no yellow fever, nor 
any more danger of it than in the Southern States. Travel is safe and con- 
venient. The railroads have modern equipment and are well managed. The 
steamships are clean and commodious and set good tables, and the trip on either 
coast from one land-locked harbor to another is an enjoyable experience. After 
Havana and Matanzas, the most interesting place to visit is Camagiiey. 

Havana is considered one of the niost picturesque cities of the Western 
Hemisphere, and is extremely quaint in many of its aspects, and therefore inter- 
esting. Its architecture and streets are of a distant past, while its bustle and 
commercial activity remind one of the modern metropolis. There are enough 
sights in and around the city to keep the tourist busy as long as he elects to 
remain. 

One of the most interesting of trips is that to Matanzas, located on the 
United Railways of Havana, some fifty-five miles from Havana. At a half 
hour's drive from the city, Cuba's most famous natural attractions may be seen 
— the Yumuri Valley and Bellamar Caves. At Mr. Foster's office are issued 
coupon tickets including the round-trip fare between Havana and Matanzas, 
an excellent lunch, a volanta (or carriage) drive through the best streets of the 
town, and to the Yumuri Valley and Bellamar Caves, and admission to the 
caves. Parties leave Havana daily under the conduction of a competent guide- 
interpreter. 

The Cuba Railroad, which runs from Santa Clara to Santiago, a distance of 
374 miles, is of the American standard and equipment, and affords for the tourist 
not only many scenic attractions, but the best means of learning the great 
agricultural and commercial resources of the island, which are awaiting develop- 
ment. 

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THE RAILROAD TO KEY WEST. 



The most notable railroad enterprise now 
in progress, and one of the most remarkable 
ever undertaken, is the extension of the 
Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to 
Key West. Some details of the work, which 
is now in course of construction, are given 
in a report by Thomas P. Ghastry in the 
Baltimore Manufacturers' Record. Mr. 
Ghastry quotes Mr. Flagler as saying: 

"I have long thought of a railroad to Key 
West, but the engineering difificulties seemed 
insurmountable. When the Panama Canal 
was decided on I determined to put to an en- 
gineering test the practicability of a railroad 
from the mainland of Florida to the port of 
Key West. Tides, currents, winds, all sorts 
of things, had to be reckoned with. The 
survey has been made, the practicability 
proven, and New York and Key West are 
to be connected by rail. Here is a memo- 
randum from my engineers showing what it 
all means." 

The facts of the memorandum are these: 
The distance from Miami to Key West is 
154 miles. Of this, 28 miles is completed to 
Homestead, the present terminus of the road. 
The work from Homestead south is made 
up in round numbers of 60 miles rock em- 
bankment through the waters separating the 
mainland from Key Largo and through the 
waters separating the different keys. 

There are to be four concrete viaducts 31 
feet above the water — one from Long 
Key to Conch Key, 10,500 feet; a viaduct 
across Knight's Key channel, 7,300 feet; a 
viaduct across Moser Key Channel, 7.800, and 
a viaduct across Bahia Honda Key channel, 
4,950 feet, making a total of concrete viaduct 
30,550 feet, equivalent to 5.78 miles. 

These viaducts are to be constructed of re- 
inforced concrete, 50-foot spans resting on 
piers set into solid rock and strengthened 
with piles. The base of the pier at rock sur- 
face is 28 feet, and at the springing line of 
arch 20 feet 7 inches. From the water to 
the crown of the arch will be 25 feet. To 
that should be added the thickness of the 
arch at the crown, ballast, ties, etc., making 
the track 31 feet above the level of the water. 
Of the water openings there are seven, 25 



feet each. These are. in the solid embank- 
ment, and are only intended for rowboats 
and small craft. 

Of drawbridges there are to be three, with 
openings aggregating 410 feet. The remain- 
ing distance, about 65 miles, is made up of 
the islands or keys over which the road 
passes. 

After leaving the mainland the first key 
traversed is Key Largo, the largest of the 
entire group of Florida keys, being some 40 
miles in length. Of this, however, the rail- 
road traverses only 15 miles. The names of 
the keys south of Key Largo, in order are 
as follows: Plantation Key, Windley's Key, 
Upper Matecumbe, Lower Matecumbe, Long 
Key, Conch Keys, Grassy Key, Crawl Key, 
Key Vaca, Knight's Key, Little Duck Key, 
Missouri Key, Ohio Key, Bahia Honda, 
West Summerland Key, Cudjoe, Sugar Loaf 
Key, Saddle Bunch Keys, Big Coppit Key, 
Rockland Key, Boca Chica, Stock Island, and 
Key West. 

There are a number of other keys in plain 
sight of the line of the road which the road 
does not traverse. Many of these keys are 
beautiful, being covered with groves of 
cocoanuts, pineapples, etc. 

Terminal facilities at Key West will com- 
prise a dry dock and ten covered piers, each 
800 feet in length and 100 feet in width, with 
basin 200 feet between piers. The ten piers 
will furnish berths for forty ships 400 feet in 
length with a depth of water ranging from 
20 to 30 feet. Mr. J. C. Meredith at Miami, 
Fla., is constructing engineer in charge of all 
the work. 



By John Bannon in Manufacturers' Record. 

It is within the realm of conservatism to 
say that at no previous period of the world's 
history, referring to construction or engineer- 
ing undertakings, can a parallel case be cited. 
The bold conception of connecting Key West 
with the mainland is now rapidly maturing 
from an idea to a concrete fact. 

The greatest water depths were ascertained 
to be twenty-three feet. To lay foundations 
for solid columns at this depth in the open 
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thirty feet above the sea level (the exact 
height fixed upon), a roadbed for railroad 
purposes proof against the fury of the ele- 
ments and of sufficient stability to w^ithstand 
the ravages of time, is a task which human 
ingenuity was never previously called upon to 
execute. But this is exactly what is being 
done. The idea in its simple grandeur is 
the boldest conceived in railroad work or any 
other form of construction work. 

The engineering problems to be overcome 
at Simplon Pass, in Switzerland, and in our 
own country in successfully constructing rail- 
roads in part through and over the Rocky 
Mountains, at the time considered marvels of 
engineering triumphs, sink into insignificance 
when compared with this latest project in rail- 
roading. 

The man whose enterprise and capital were 
equal to the occasion in deciding to ac- 
complish this great work, realizing that an 
undertaking of this character, the successful 
completion of which would place his railroad 
system in the forefront as a trunk line, was 
also alive to the fact that criticism, strong and 
pointed, would be aimed at the impracti- 
cability of building a roadbed mounted on 
a viaduct thirty feet above the sea level, 
with the supporting columns running into 
the depths twenty-three feet, with founda- 
tions in the form of anchorage in solid rock 
below this. But a study of the plans and 
specifications of the work now well under way 
will convince the most skeptical that when 
the whistle of the Florida East Coast Rail- 
road locomotive sounds over the surging 
waters no more solid nor safe railroad will 
exist. From the coral rocks beneath, of 
which they will become a concrete part, will 
rise majestically over the waves a series of 
columns of such an impenetrable and irre- 
sistible nature that the topmost portion of the 
structures, the roadbed, will be as oblivious 
to the effects of the fiercest storms as Pike's 
Peak. However strong the winds may blow 
or the waves lash, the Florida East Coast 
Railroad trains will be enabled to pursue their 
aerial course undisturbed and with absolute 
safety. 

The anchorage or base of each column will 
rest on sixty pine piles. These latter, with 
iron-pointed shoes, will be steam-hammer- 



driven clear through the solid rock. Coffer- 
dams of suitable size for caisson work, for 
the withdrawal by suction of water, will en- 
able the engineers to charge the enormous 
receptacles with crushed rock, sand and 
cement in suitable proportions, together with 
the necessary quantity of steel rods. Two 
hundred and fifty thousand barrels of cement 
and 7,000 tons of steel rods have been con- 
tracted for use in this work, several heavy 
consignments of which have already arrived. 
This order for cement is said to be the largest 
ever given for a single undertaking. All this, 
however, is but one of the features of the en- 
gineering work under way. South of Home- 
stead there are twenty miles of mangrove 
swamp. The railroad must run over this por- 
tion of the route to connect with Key Largo. 
To form a solid roadbed at this point, which 
necessitates an enormous amount of dredging 
and filling in alternately, will prove a tedious 
as well as an extremely difficult piece of work. 
A number of dredges are now in operation 
removing the apparently bottomless slush of 
sea mud and replacing it with crushed rock, 
sand and cement. Hundreds of thousands of 
tons of this material will be transported from 
the Hudson River, New York, Mobile, Ala., and 
South Carolina. The engineering difficulties 
which this work presents are probably as great 
as those entailed in constructing the railroad 
over the waves. The moving and shifting 
nature of the slimy material which forms the 
mangrove swamp renders the dredging and 
excavating before solid underground is se- 
cured one of the most difficult and arduous 
portions of the work which will be encount- 
ered. Work in this respect is proceeding 
rapidly, and if crushed rock and sand, knit by 
a liberal proportion of cement, resting on solid 
bottom, will not form a concrete mass offer- 
ing a secure and inviting surface for a rail- 
road bed, nothing will. However, there is 
no question as to the practicability of this, 
basing my statement on the conclusion of a 
number of engineers of international fame. 



The road was completed in January, 1908, 
to Knight's Key, no miles south of Miami; 
and from here steamers sail directly for 
Havana. 



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TARPON FISHING AT FORT MYERS. 



The tarpon is a shy feeder, and his mouth is 
tender. He will take the bait and run some 
distance before he is satisfied there is noth- 
ing wrong. While doing this the tyro is apt 
to "strike" too soon, for even the slightest 
resistance of the reel, added to the weight 
of the line, will make him drop the hook. 
But at last he bolts the bait and starts oflf 
for another item in the menu. When the 
tentative pull becomes a steady drag, strike 
hard, and you have him. 

Give him the butt now, with your feet 
against the thwart, and your whole frame 
tingling. Be careful that you do not bite 
oflf the amber mouth-piece to your briar 
pipe or drop it overboard as you yell, for 
you have your work cut out; he is rarely 
under fifty pounds, and more often over lOO 
pounds, frequently going over 150 pounds. 

His majesty quivers through all his glitter- 
ing length when he feels the pain in his 
"innards," and the indignity of a check. He 
shakes his head from side to side till the 
te.ut line sings and then his curved dorsal 
cuts the surface and he bolts. Let him go — 
nothing short of a mule could stop him, and 
the task is beyond your strength or your 
tackle. The guide rows hard to assist you 
to keep as much as you can of your line, 
for his rush will be long. Keep cool and 
trust to your boatman. Give him no slack. 

He reaches deep water, and he plunges; 
down, down, he goes, and the strain on your 
line is lessened. You are approaching a 
crisis. Straight upward he comes, and you 
gasp, for there is no pull, and you think he 
is free. No, up still — he reaches the sur- 
face, and out he springs, a long symmetrical 
bar of gleaming silver, doubling as it rises, 
till, at the apex of the leap the tail nears the 
mouth and a blow is struck at the little line 
that would fell an ox. But your line is slack, 
your point lowered, he beats only the air, 
and he plunges again, sullenly this time. 
You feel his disappointment, and you almost 
grieve with him that so grand a coup was in- 
eflfectual. There is another rush, but a 
shorter one; another leap and a sullen 
plunge. Gather your line as he goes down. 



Then he tries other tactics. On the bottom 
or near it he grinds his jaws like scissors 
and tries in vain to cut these elusive threads 
that bind him to his fate — intangible to him, 
but strong as links of steel. He dashes his 
head from side to side and twists about. 
Keep your line taut, or he will entangle it 
about his body and have you at a disad- 
vantage. Leave him alone in his struggles, 
bring your boat nearer and reach for a drink. 
Your lips are dry and your fingers tremble, 
but he gives you little time, for another rush 
is coming. 



Up again, but not so high does he glitter 
in the sunshine, and as the great oar of a 
tail swings round you see much of the spring 
has departed, and there is a look in the great 
eyes that gives you a thrill of pity, for the 
dumb agony of a great despair is in them. 
Back again to the blue waters to try a last 
hope. 

He goes straight to the bottom. One 
moment he seeks the right spot, and then he 
grinds his lips against a rough surface — a 
stone if he can find it, or a floor of shells. 
Heedless of the pain, he grinds and grinds 
to cut the line. At last he realizes that he is 
only wearing away his flesh. Then he comes 
within six feet of the surface and heads for 
open water. But he is weak; row after him, 
and take in your line; nothing but bad 
management can lose him now, and he knows 
it. There are short rushes from side to 
side, then he doubles back, and tries to pass 
under your boat to foul the line. In vain, 
for your boatman has shot you oflf, and he 
loses one more point in the game. Then he 
ventures a leap, and opens his immense jaws 
as if to take an emetic of air and throw out 
that "pinning sorrow sharper than a ser- 
pent's tooth." Then he sulks. Reel him in 
now; the sport is done, and the rest is the 
mere work of towing him in to be correctly 
weighed and measured for record. 

Usually the expert tarpon fisher will sub- 
due one of these mighty fighters in twenty 
minutes, the novice will take a much longer 
time, often playing the fish for several hours. 



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FISHING AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS. 



A. St y. Newberry in Forest and Streai. 



From Miami to Key West and beyond ex- 
tends a shallow sea dotted with small and 
large islets. Toward the north and west 
these are little but mud, mangroves and 
mosquitoes, but toward the west and south 
they often show white beaches of coral sand 
and sometimes a little soil capable of culti- 
vation, while cocoanut palms are not infre- 
quent. The belt of islets is ten to forty miles 
in width, and around the inner ones stretch 
wide sounds of shallow water and broad flats 
of sand or mud barely covered by the tide. 
Between the outer keys are frequent channels 
called creeks, through which the tide ebbs 
and flows, and beyond the outer line on the 
east coast is a belt of shoal water from three 
to five miles wide extending to the Florida 
Reef, from which the bottom plunges down- 
ward rapidly to the channel of the great 
Gulf Stream. On the West Coast the water 
is shoal all through the Bay of Florida, deep- 
ening gradually toward the Gulf of Mexico. 
The whole region naturally divides itself into 
two districts, the East Coast and West Coast, 
as they are commonly distinguished, the ter- 
ritory between the keys being rather similar 
to and generally included with the latter. 
These two districts differ considerably in 
the character of their waters, and the in- 
habitants thereof, the East Coast being 
washed by water of crystal clearness, peopled 
by the Spanish mackerel, kingfish, barracuda, 
amberjacks, and others that rarely appear on 
the western shore, while the waters of the 
West Coast are more cloudy, and inhabited 
by the great rays, the sawfish, the sheeps- 
head and the drums, gray and red. The 
tarpon frequents both coasts, but appears 
earlier and is, I think, more numerous on 
the west side, while sharks are common 
everywhere. 

The eastern fish and fishing have been most 
fully and carefully described by Mr. W. H. 
Gregg in his admirable work, "When, Where 
and How to Catch Fish on the East Coast 
of Florida," and Mr. Chas. F. Holder, in 
his fascinating volume, "The Big Game 
Fishes of the United States," has written most 



exhaustively and lovingly of the principal 
tenants of both districts. Anyone contem- 
plating a fishing trip to Florida will find these 
two books give abundant information as well 
as the keenest pleasure. 

To get the best results the northern fisher- 
man might leave Miami about the middle of 
February, spend two weeks on the East 
Coast, and reach Marco or Punta Rassa 
a'bout March i, by which time he ought to 
find plenty of tarpon. Doing this he is not 
likely to meet with many "northers," which 
put an end to all fishing while they blow, and 
still will be early enough to escape any great 
heat and the worst of the flies, which last are 
present in places favorable for them at all 
seasons, but are not very bad until spring, 
when the West Coast is said to be almost 
intolerable, and even the more favored East 
is not free from the scourge. 



In the excessively clear waters of the East, 
fish have every opportunity to see the angler 
and his line, and they do not fail to make 
the most of them. As a consequence nearly 
all are extremely shy and madden one by 
the calmest indifference to the most seductive 
baits. To obtain success one must get his 
bait to the fish while himself at a consider- 
able distance, and this must be done either 
by trolling or by making a long cast or let- 
ting the sinker run down with the tide, and 
the bait lie on the bottom until a fish strikes. 
Of course a running sinker must be used, so 
that the lightest nibble can be felt. If these 
fish were surface feeders, one could have 
ideal sport with the fly, and I understand that 
this has been successfully tried by one or two 
anglers when fishing in shallow waters. 
There seem to be few large flies in the 
country, and the fish live on minnows or 
crustaceans, so the fly is not offered to them 
as a fly, but as a strange moving, and there- 
fore living, object, which is presented and 
snatched away until a rush is made at it and 
the unwise investigator is hooked in conse- 
quence. Mr. Dimmock, whom I met at 
Marco, and who has done wonders with the 



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camera and with the spear, tells me that he 
has had excellent sport with channel bass 
and small tarpon by using the fly in this 
manner. 



In the channels between the keys fishing 
is greatly dependent on the state of the tide, 
as fish seem to travel back and forth with 
the currents while feeding, and when the 
tide is running strongly it is very difficult to 
feel the delicate nibble which is usually all 
that is given. Slack water and the hour or 
so preceding and following it is the favor- 
able period, and if fish are not taken then 
you had better try some other place. On 
the outer reef this is not so much the case, 
and one can often find success at any stage 
of the tide. Florida fish are, however, very 
freaky and uncertain, like most other fish, 
and often choose their time for biting and for 
refusing to do so without apparent reason; 
but patience and diligence will bring suc- 
cess in the South as in the North. 

As most of these fish are bottom feeders, 
a pretty heavy sinker is usually necessary for 
still-fishing, and this dead weight is of course 
a nuisance in fishing and a great hindrance 
and disavantage in playing a fish when 
hooked. In the channels and shoal water 
one can generally use moderately light tackle, 
though it is always possible that you may 
hook something large enough to endanger 
your rig. On the reef to use light tackle is 
to court disaster, as you are practically cer- 
tain to strike a monster that even the 
heaviest rig will barely save. At Alligator 
Reef my companion had his line broken 
twice, and twice had the full two hundred 
yards carried away by some irresistible 
power. Having never before used a tarpon 
rod or a twenty-one thread line, I grew to 
think them equal to any strain that could be 
exerted, so twice had the line broken at the 
leader knot through holding big amberjacks 
too tight, and, having hooked two big sharks 
while trolling for kingfish, succeeded in both 
cases in breaking the line without losing 
much, more by good luck than by any skill. 

Some months ago I was asked to join in 
a discussion as to whether fresh or salt-water 
fish were the stronger. Having then had but 
little salt-water experience, I did not feel 



qualified to express an opinion. Now, how- 
ever, my conviction is fixed beyond shaking 
that the salt-water fish, weight for weight, 
is greatly the more powerful. No one who 
has seen the rushes and leaps of a barracuda, 
felt the mighty surges of an amberjack or 
the wild dashes of a kingfish, can for a 
moment doubt that to any of these the 
heaviest salmon tackle would be as a thread 
of gossamer. Using a 24-ounce 6-foot tarpon 
rod and a multiplier holding 200 yards of 21- 
thread line (tested to a dead pull of 42 
pounds), and equipped with a pad brake, I 
have repeatedly had more than a hundred 
yards torn from the reel, in spite of the great- 
est pressure that my thumb on the brake and 
my gloved left hand clasped around line and 
rod, could possibly exert, by fish that proved 
when gafifed to weigh only twenty pounds or 
thereabout. After playing and landing my 
largest amberfish — four feet long and weigh- 
ing forty-five pounds — my left arm at the 
elbow ached very sharply, and I actually had 
to rest for ten minutes before daring to risk 
it in another such struggle. Our fishing was 
done from the big launch and was difficult 
in consequence; it would have been much 
easier if done from small boats which the 
fish could tow. 



The play of the great pelagic fishes caught 
on or outside the reef is interestingly dif- 
ferent. The barracuda, sabre-toothed and 
pike-like, makes fierce and long side runs, 
and often leaps repeatedly clear from the 
water; the kingfish, splendid in blue and 
silver and iridescent with pink and purple, 
takes the bait with a rush that often carries 
him ten feet clear of the waves, the squid in 
his jaws, and then dashes wildly from side to 
side, away, down, up and everywhere. The 
amberjack does not leap, but marches away 
with a force that nothing seems able to 
check, utterly refuses to yield to pressure, 
never seems to tire, and is of all fish I have 
met, the one that fights longest and steadiest, 
with a fund of reserve power that it seems 
impossible to exhaust. The huge grouper, 
battleship of fishes, resists heavily and im- 
movably, and is only too apt to get into a 
rock and leave you trying to lift the State 
of Florida. 



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CAST UP ON THE FLORIDA SHORE. 



In the Atlantic Ocean, about sixty miles 
due east from the Florida coast, are located 
the Bahama Islands, and between these and 
the coast is a great thoroughfare or track 
of vessels, both steamers and sail craft, en- 
gaged in commerce or transportation be- 
tween the northern cities and the Gulf of 
Mexico, the isthmus of Panama, the West 
Indies, northern South America and Cali- 
fornia. These vessels are, from time to time, 
exposed to the terrible storms and hurri- 
canes which prevail at certain seasons of the 
year, and in spite of the greatest care and 
precautions, are not unfrequently wrecked 
and driven ashore, or, escaping this, are 
compelled to throw overboard more or less 
of their cargoes to avoid destruction. The 
prevailing easterly winds, and the Gulf 
Stream which sets in closer to the Florida 
coast — near Jupiter Inlet — than elsewhere, 
causes a large percentage of such "burdens 
of the sea" to be carried on that coast, be- 
tween Cape Canavaral and Biscayne Bay, a 
distance of some two hundred miles; and the 
shore between these points seems to be liter- 
ally lined with the debris of wrecked vessels, 
or their cargoes, at times almost buried in 
sand; and. again, after change of wind, and 
a heavy sea, so exposed, that one could al- 
most walk for miles on the planks of old 
wrecks which have been accumulating for 
hundreds of years. Formerly there were few 
or no settlers along the coast, and only now 
and then a solitary "beach-comber" (one who 
gains his livelihood by gleaning from the sea- 
shore), or, perhaps, some shipwrecked 
sailors, or a few wandering Indians, ever ap- 
peared to note what might be cast ashore. 
But since the country near the coast has be- 
come peopled, the settlers regularly walk the 
beach, particularly after a storm, gathering 
up whatever they find worth saving, and 
carrying it above the reach of the waves, 
where it is left until a convenient season for 
taking it home, and by common consent, 
such removal above high-water mark, es- 
tablishes ownership. Many of the dwellings 
along the coast are built of lumber and 
timber thus saved; and no small quantity of 
family stores are thus gathered; firkins of 



butter and lard, cans of fruit, boxes of 
sardines, barrels without number, demijohns 
of brandy, crates of garlic, bales of cotton, 
and when, as sometimes happen, a large 
steamer goes ashore, the beach is strewn for 
miles with goods and merchandise, and 
people gather, from far and near, to get what 
they can from the wreck. 

A ramble along the unfrequented beach is 
always interesting, and somewhat exciting, 
and would drive away the blues from the 
veriest misanthrope in existence. The dash- 
ing of the huge breakers, the movements of 
mammoth sharks, the vast schools of mullet, 
the graceful flights of the uncouth pelican, 
the tumbling porpoise, and the hundreds of 
sea-gulls on the ocean side, while shells, in 
almost myriad forms are strewn along the 
sands, and an ever-varying succession of 
articles washed ashore, and going to decay 
on the bank above, all combine to make up 
a scene of interest. 

The most common and plentiful articles to 
be found are bottles — bottles of every size 
and shape and color, round, square and ob- 
long, nearly all empty, most of them having 
a suspicious smell, when uncorked, of gin or 
brandy, but the contents, if any, are usually 
too salt to be palatable. Sometimes a bot- 
tle comes ashore, in which, sealed tight, to 
keep dry, is a record of some vessel 
foundered in a far-away sea, or of human 
beings, in a distant part of the world, re- 
duced to dire extremity, and trusting to this 
as their only hope of making known their 
fate. Sometimes a board is found, on which 
is written in blood, the name of a vessel, and 
the record, "Foundered at Sea," with name 
and date, and this is all that is ever known 
of a staunch vessel, and gallant crew. 

Children's toys, crutches, ladies' bonnets, 
lead pencils, shoes and stockings, and old- 
fashioned hoop skirts, are not uncommon, 
while, occasionally, the old hulk of a Spanish 
galleon, which has been buried in the sand 
for years, is uncovered, and the silver and 
gold, which it may have carried, is sometimes 
brought to the surface. Trunks, filled with 
valuables, have been carried up on the beach, 
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of money have been found in them. 

Cocoanuts come ashore, and after lying 
buried in sand for a time, sprout and grow, 
until transplanted by the settlers to a more 
congenial spot. Sea beans, vegetable-ivory, 
and other nuts and fruits are common, all 
along the coast. Strange fish, which can be 



likened to nothing else on earth, are mingled 
with the debris; and a collection of relics 
from this coast would represent almost all 
nations, but all tell a tale of suffering and 
disaster, which can but sadden the thouerht- 
ful, and awaken the sympathies of all. 

Boston Floridian. 



DRAINING THE EVERGLADES. 



The draining of the Everglades is a 
project which has long engaged attention. 
In 185s the Florida Legislature created the 
Board of Trustees of the Internal Improve- 
ment Fund, to whom was intrusted the 
drainage, reclamation and internal improve- 
of the public domain, embracing nearly 
twenty million acres, which had been 
granted to Florida by Congress in 1841 and 
1850. In 1856 Lieut. J. C. Miles, in a report 
to Secretary of War Jefiferson Davis, wrote 
of the region: "An area of about 4,000 
square miles, embracing more than half the 
portion of the State south of Lake Okeecho- 
bee. The sub-soil of this vast region is a 
coraline limestone. * * * Upon this sur- 
face lies an immense accumulation of sand, 
alluvial deposits and decayed vegetable 
matter, forming a mass of sand and mud from 
two feet to ten feet or more in depth, that 
overspreads all but a few points of the first 
strata. Upon the mud rests a sheet of water, 
the depth varying with the conformation of 
the bottom, but seldom at dry seasons, 
greater than three feet. The whole is filled 
with rank growth of coarse grass, eight to 
ten feet high, having a serrated edge like a 
saw, from which it obtains its name of saw 
grass. In many portions of the Everglades 
the saw grass is so thick as to be impene- 



trable, but it is intersected by numerous nar- 
row tortuous channels that form a kind of 
labyrinth, where outlets present themselves 
in every direction, however, terminating at 
long or short distances, in impenetrable bar- 
riers of grass. The surface water is quickly 
affected by rain, the alternate rising and fall- 
ing during the wet seasons being very rapid. 
The difference of level between highest and 
lowest stages of water is from two to three 
feet." 

The Everglades lie in a depressed basin 
which is cut off from the Gulf and the Atlan- 
tic by a run of limestone or coral rock. By 
the alluvial deposits of the ages this basin 
has been filled up until the surface has risen 
above the level of the sea; and at certain 
points, where the inclosing rock run is low, 
the Everglade waters have overflown the 
barrier or cut a way through it, as with the 
Miami, New Hillsboro, Middle, Arch and 
Snake rivers on the east, and the Chocklus- 
kie and Caloosahatchee on the west. The 
reclamation of the region by providing arti- 
ficial canals to draw off the water has been 
discussed as a feasible engineering work. A 
proposition to do this as a State enterprise 
was submitted to the people of Florida in 
1906, and the measure was defeated in the 
election of that year. 



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FLORA OF PALM BEACH. 



From the Palm Beach News. 



The first impression of Florida, gained by 
a view from the windows of a Pullman, is one 
of long-leaved pine, cypress and palmetto. 
The conclusion is that the native flora is 
somewhat limited. The second impression of 
the visitor is equally erroneous. Alighting 
at Palm Beach in the midst of a tropical 
paradise, he is bewildered by the beauty and 
luxuriance of cocoa palms, date palms, 
hibiscus, oleanders, screw pines, sapodillas, 
bougainvillaea, and a multitude of species 
varying in a thousand hues and forms. 

Yet these are all exotics, brought from the 
West Indies, South America, Japan, India, 
China and the South Sea Islands. All thrive 
and bloom and fruit as profusely as if the 
soil had been their home through centuries 
of evolution; yet a quarter of a century ago 
not one was here. 

But on some gentle day in March, when the 
trade winds have begun their seasonable 
sweep over the Florida coast, bringing the 
scent of spring, and causing native shrubs 
and flowers to put on a new dress of green 
and open the buds of odorous flowers, it is 
worth while to stroll through the wild paths 
of the hammock with open eyes. There is 
many a thing to be seen. 

To one who has a love for botany, a pocket 
microscope is an all sufficient companion. 

Naturally the first to call attention to them- 
selves are the trees. In the depth of the 
jungle are many fine varieties of hardwoods, 
well adapted to the art of the cabinet maker. 
Scattered among them are palms and other 
trees of soft grain or fibre, less valuable, 
but equally curious and interesting. 

On the height of the hammock, swept and 
stunted by the salt wind, are other species 
dwarfed to the size of shrubs, eking out a 
bare existence in constant struggle with the 
barren soil, the pitiless wind and the en- 
croaching ocean. 

Only one member of the palm family is 
native here, the Sabal palmetto, or cabbage 
palm, including two or three dwarf varieties 
and one magnificent tall tree that lives to the 
age of a hundred years, nourishing with it 
long spikes of honeyed yellow flowers, gen- 



erations of wild bees, and feeding the rac- 
coons with its black berries. As the tree in- 
creases in height, lifting its long-stemmed 
palmate leaves higher and higher, it car- 
ries with it a multitude of drooping ferns 
that take root in the curious boots, formed 
by the stems of the dead and discarded 
leaves. 

Sometimes a bird drops in one of these 
boots a fig, stolen from a neighboring ban- 
yan, and high above the ground it sprouts, 
puts forth insinuating roots that creep down- 
ward, wrapping the palm in a deadly em- 
brace, until they find the ground and grow 
into a great buttressed trunk, completely en- 
veloping the palmetto, bearing it oftimes to 
the earth, or plucking it up bodily by the 
roots. 

The banyan is a parasite, an air plant first, 
then living on another tree, and finally 
branching out into independent life as a 
forest monarch, with an ever-increasing num- 
ber of buttressed trunks and props and 
snaky limbs. It belongs to the mulberry 
family, of which the fig is a member, and 
bears little red fruit in great abundance 
with a pleasing acid taste, something like 
the fig of commerce. It has another inter- 
esting relative in the rubber tree of com- 
merce, which it much resembles in appear- 
ance and in the milky juice that flows readily 
from any wound. 

Its first cousin, the mulberry, grows luxu- 
riantly through the hammock, its masses of 
juicy berries furnishing a luxury much loved 
by Mr. Ursus Americanus, the black bear, 
who still has his haunts in the woods at the 
south end of Lake Worth. 

Along these forest trails one also sees the 
gumbo limbo or naked tree, curious for its 
smooth trunk, the thin papery green bark of 
which peels off in shreds and tatters, showing 
a solid brownish-red beneath. Near it is its 
cousin, the "poisonwood," possessing similar 
pinnate leaves and green berries, but with a 
deadly milky juice that blackens and poisons 
the unlucky skin it touches. Next there 
stands a great tree with rough red bark, and 
beautiful oval leaves, six or seven inches 



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long, its yellow flowers breathing forth a 
perfume as delicate and sweet as that of 
roses. Crush one of the leaves in your hand 
and recognize the familiar odor of the red 
bay, famous since the day that aged Priam 
sought its protecting shadow in the sack of 
Troy. 

Among the hardwoods are the hypelate, or 
inkwood, the ironwood, with fine white grain 
and jet black heart, the native mahogany, the 
wild lime, a thorny shrub whose severed 
trunk shows concentric rings of yellow and 
golden brown, the stafif tree, the red stopper, 
with leaves that exhale an odor unpleasantly 
like that of the too familiar black and white 
pussy of the woods, and many others. 

Along the shore grows the mangrove, 
whose cigar-shaped "adventitious roots" 
bearing the bud, go dancing with the tide to 
every muddy creek and bayou on the coast. 

In the thicket are sea grape and pigeon 



plum, two noble trees, bearing fruit that 
serves to make a very good wine. It is hard 
to believe that these great trees are first 
cousins to the familiar buckwheat of North- 
ern farms, yet such is the case. 

Under the shadows of the forest is a 
tangled mat of wandering-jew, and ferns as 
beautiful as any Boston fern in any Northern 
hot-house. Springing up among them is the 
cofifee, by turns with beautiful white flowers, 
or wine-colored berries, whose little seeds 
but await the horticulturist to make them as 
famous as their brothers in Arabia. 

These are but a few of the wonders of the 
jungle. Penetrate it for yourself — study the 
magnificent old trees, note the curious vari- 
ety of blossom and fruit, include in your re- 
view the trailing vines, grape, Quaker-bean, 
the chiococca, or wait-a-bit, and despise not 
the humble flower that blossoms before your 
feet. 



THE BOCA GRANDE COUNTRY ON THE WEST COAST. 



The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Rail- 
way was commenced from Boca Grande about 
three years ago. The road was completed 
to Arcadia, fifty-three miles north of Boca 
Grande, and had that point as its northern 
terminus until March, 1909, when an exten- 
sion of the line was commenced to Plant 
City, sixty-five miles north. Plant City will 
be reached and the line opened for opera- 
tion to that point in March, 1910. The line 
runs through an extensive territory of excel- 
lent long leaf yellow pine forests, heretofore 
untouched by the naval stores and sawmill 
operators. It also opens a rich agricultural 
section to homeseekers, and taps and brings 
nearer to market numerous large orange and 
grape fruit groves planted by the pioneers 
who sought this section years ago ahead of 
the railroad on account of the lands being 
specially adapted to the culture of citrus 
fruits. These groves are now full bearing and 
are giving handsome returns to the well di- 
rected efforts of the owners. The line also 
penetrates the rich phosphate fields of the 
Peace River Country, and further north runs 



through the heart of the rich Bora Valley 
district. 

Boca Grande is located on the southern 
port of the beautiful and romantic Gasparilla 
Island. With seven miles of beautiful sand 
and shell beach, washed by the surf of the 
Gulf of Mexico, in which surf bathing is in- 
dulged all the year, and on its eastern shore 
the beautiful and extensive waters of Char- 
lotte Harbor, the largest body of inland water 
in the south with a direct ocean or gulf outlet, 
it has more than three hundred miles of water 
courses for yachting and sailing. At its main 
outlet at Boca Grande pass at the south end 
of Gasparilla Island, it has a depth of thirty 
feet and more of w^ater, sufficient area to en- 
able the whole American navy to enter and 
anchor in a safe landlocked harbor. It is the 
nearest deep-water harbor of this magnitude 
to the Panama Canal on the American conti- 
nent. Boca Grande Pass is a famous tarpon 
fishing ground. There is an expanse of in- 
side waters for yachting, sailing and fishing. 
In the extensive forest adjacent on the main 
land large and small game of all kinds abound. 



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FACTS ABOUT MARION COUNTY. 



Marion County is situated in the center of 
the Florida Peninsula, midway between Jackson- 
ville and Tampa. Its west line is within four- 
teen miles of the Gulf Coast, and its east line 
within thirty miles of the Atlantic Coast. The 
county is more than forty miles square, and con- 
tains nearly 2,000 square miles. The population 
is approximately 30,000, about 50 per cent, white 
and 50 per cent, colored. The county is capitally 
served by si.x lines of railways and two lines of 
steamers. 

The climate and rainfall at Ocala, the county 
seat, averaged during the past twenty years as 
follows : Average temperature 70°. Average 
rainfall for the year 51.QO inches. 

Industrial products include turpentine, rosin, 
baskets, crates, carriers, spokes, rims, foundry 
castings and cigars. Vegetable canning factories 
are in successful operation. 

Mineral products include phosphates, lime and 
fullers earth. 

The county originally was completely covered 
with yellow pine, cypress and hardwood timber, 
including oaks of many varieties, ash, gum, 
hickory, magnolia, bay, iron wood, elm, maple 
and other kinds of timber. 

The market for staples is at home. Cabbage, 
cantaloupes, melons, lettuce and other truck and 
oranges go to every town on the Atlantic Sea- 
board, including the great tourist hotels on the 
East Coast of Florida, and west to the Mis- 
sissippi. 

Pure water is readily found by bored or dug 
wells at from twenty to one hundred feet. 
Owing to the peculiar geological formation 
which disposes of the surplus waters through 
drainage into underground streams, there is little 



waste and swamps. It is high, dry, rich soil. 
The soil varies from pure sand to waxy clay. 
The best land for general farming is a sandy 
loam. 

The main industry is agriculture. The pro- 
ducts for 1908 totaled nearly $2,500,000 and in- 
cluded corn, oats, hay, sweet potatoes, peanuts, 
velvet beans, rice, cotton, cane products, pump- 
kins and tobacco. At the 1908 Marion County 
Fair one farm exhibited thirty different farm 
products in addition to pure bred beef cattle, 
swine, sheep and goats. 

There are more than a dozen herds of pure 
bred beef and dairy cattle in the county, while 
thousands of native cattle range in the pine 
woods. There are a large number of herds of 
pure bred swine. There are a few flocks of 
pure bred sheep and a number of flocks graded 
up by the use of pure bred rams. The breeding 
of light horses is engaging increasing attention, 
and mule breeding is firmly established as a farm 
industry. The introduction of the popular 
breeds of poultry has been very extens've on 
the farms of this county the past few years. 

Truck gardening is developing in an astonish- 
ing degree. Cantaloupes, watermelons, lettuce, 
string beans, English peas, cabbage, tomatoes, 
onions, Irish potatoes, beets, eggplant, peppers, 
summer squash, Boston marrow squash, cauli- 
flower and cucumbers are shipped by the car- 
load from twenty diflferent railway stations. 

Marion County early earned its reputation as 
a producer of the finest, best-keeping and high- 
est-priced oranges and grape fruit in the State. 

Strawberries are grown commercially, but 
vegetables yield greater profit. The finest figs, 
peaches and guavas are grown. Pecans are suc- 





Marion County Court House. 



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cessfuUy cultivated in groves in a commercial 
way. 

Marion is the banner county in the matter of 
hard roads. The roads are well built, the mater- 
ials used being clay and lime stone. 

The attractions of Lake Weir and Orange 
Lake are ainnially inviting more and more win- 
ter residents, many of whom ha\e built homes 
about these lakes, while comfortable accommo- 
dations at hotels and boarding houses may be 
obtained at reasonable rates at all towns and 
villages nearby. 

This county has a most comprehensive school 
system, ranking third in the State in the point 
of aggregate attendance and apportionment of 
State school funds. 



An idea of the intelligence of the county may 
be gleaned from the fact that out of a popula- 
tion of 30,000 there are 5,828 pupils enrolled, or 
a fraction of over ig per cent. There are in 
operation 106 schools, employing 152 teachers at 
a cost in 1908 of $71,538.14. The school prop- 
erty of the county is valued at $86,978. 

Nearly all religious denominations are repre- 
sented with an estimated combined memiiership 
of 9,000 and property valued at $111,000. 

These paragraphs have been taken from a 
handsomely illustrated booklet descriptive of 
Marion County, whith may be had at Mr. 
Foster's offices, or on mail request from S. T. 
Sistrunk, Clerk of the Board of County Com- 
missioners, Ocala. 



JACKSONVILLE. 



Jacksonville, on the St. John's River, twenty- 
five miles from the sea, is the metropolis of the 
State, and in growing commercial importance is 
one of the leading cities of the South. The 
population in 1901 was 28,000; to-day it is esti- 
mated to be 65,000. In May, 1901, a conflagra- 
tion destroyed 2,600 buildings with a loss of 
over $15,000,000; the burned area has been re- 
built with 8,000 buildings valued at $25,000,000. 
By such a showing is the spirit of the people 
exhibited and the expansion of the future as- 
sured. 

As the gateway of Florida — for the principal 
railroad lines converge here and steamships 
make this their Florida port — ^Jacksonville is 
well known to the tourist from the North and 
the West. The city numbers its winter visitors 
by hundreds of thousands. 

There is much to attract one, and abundant 
means to interest and entertain while here. In 
all the factors which make for comfort and 
convenience the city is well equipped. The 
streets are broad, well paved and shaded. The 
electric car lines are modern and up-to-date. 
The city has its own electric lighting system, and 
shines as an illuminating example of municipal 
ownership. The water supply is from inex- 
haustible artesian wells. The shops, numerous, 
varied and well stocked, are metropolitan in 
character. Modern, well built theaters bring to 
the city the best companies. There are many 
clubs, men's and women's. A countrv club 



maintains a clul) house with excellent golf links. 
A yacht club whitens the St. John's with pleasure 
craft. Pleasant drives lead in many directions, 
and miles of auto roads are well cared for. 
There are numerous interesting trips on the 
river, and the Atlantic beach is readily reached. 
The Florida Ostrich Farm, accessible by elec- 
tric car line, is an unfailing source of enter- 
tainment ; the big birds in action, and pose are 
objects of perennial interest. The ostrich may 
here be studied in all stages, from the egg to 
the plume on my lady's hat. 

Jacksonville is well provided with hotels of 
established excellence. The city has enjoyed 
long-established popularity as a tourist resort, 
and ample provision is made for the comfort 
of visitors. 

Leesbl'RG is an interior town situated in the 
pine country, with dry, clear air and freedom 
from dampness and fogs. The woods afford ex- 
cellent shooting for wild turkeys, quail and 
doves, and there is excellent fishing. Leesburg 
is on the Atlantic Coast Line and the Seaboard 
Air Line. 

Altamonte Springs is in Orange County, 
1,38 miles north of Jacksonville, on the Atlantic 
Coast Line. With the highest elevation in the 
State, and surrounded by pine forests, this point 
enjoys a climate which is of peculiar benefit to 
convalescents. Extensive orange groves are all 
about, and the fishing and shooting will be found 
sood. 



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ANGELUS 



"If people who care at all for music really k.neLO what a 
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This is what one owner thinks of his ANGELUS. 
of others who are even more enthusiastic. 



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the ANGELUS instruments are 



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Rolls. The ANGELUS has also a playing range of 88 notes — the full compass of the keyboard 
and it is constructed so that all ANGELUS and Standard 88 note rolls and all ANGELUS and 
Standard 65 note rolls can be used, thus making available the greatest possible selection of music. 

Let us send you our nearest selling agent's 
address and our beautiful new booklet. 

THE WILCOX & WHITE CO. :: :: Meriden, Conn. 

Business Established in 1877 Regent House, Regent Street, London 



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To 
and 
From 



FLORIDA and 

CUBA 



Via 



SEABOARD 

AIR LINE RAILWAY 



Fotir Trains 'Dtiring 
Tourist Season : : 

Including Seaboard' Florida Limited 

Only Electric Lighted all Pullman Train with Club 
Car, Observation Car, Dining Car, and Standard 
Drawing-Room and Compartment Sleeping Cars 

BETWEEN 

NEW YORK AND JACKSONVILLE 

With through Pullman Sleeping Cars between New York 
and St. Augustine, Palm Beach, Miami and Knights Key. 



Mod. 
Tu«$. 



No. 81 

Daily 



1:25 p.m. 
730 p.m 



Wed. 330 p.m. 



S^j|>»J5^ No. 93 I No. 43 I No. 92 No. 84 ; i^'^fi"* No. 66 

Dl, Ex. Sa. Daily ! DaUy I ; Daily Daily 'Za^tT^.. i DaU, 



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l:IOp.iii.9:25«.ai. 12:10 vm.;Lv. NEW YORK Ar. 5:00 p.m. 2K)0 p.m. 4J0 p.m. 3:53 ajn, 

2K)0p.m. 1:20p.m.; 7:45 ».m. Ar. JACKSONVILLE Lv.6:15a.m.' 8:50 a.m. 1:25 p.m. 7:50p.m. 

7:30 a.m. 7:30 a.mj Ar. KNIGHTS KEY Lv. 12:00 noon 6:00 p.m, 

4:30p.m.|430p.m.! Ar. HAVANA Lv.' 11:00 a.m. 



Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Trains. Complete Dining Car Service. 
C. R. CAPPS, C. B. RYAN, 

Vice-President General Passenger Agent 

Norfolk, Va. Portsmouth, Va. 



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(^^fjilSTOHIG 




Magnificent New Steel Steamer Southland in Service February 1st 

NEW AND POPULAR ROLTE BETWEEN 

Washington, D. C, Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, 
Virginia Beach and the South 

The new and magni&ent Steel Palace Steamers of this line, the steamers "Newport News," "Norfolk" and 
"Washington," most lururiously fitted throughout, having Steam Heat in staterooms. Electric LighU and Call Bell* in 
each room, leave I'-.r:/.'/: i.-.d V.'iir.l.'.i-^.on daily on the following schedule: 



NORTHBOUND 




Leave PORTSMOUTH . . 


5:00 P. M. 


NORFOLK 


6:00 • 


FORTRESS MONROE 


7:00 " 


Arrive ALEXANDRIA 


6:30 A. M. 


WASHINGTON 


.7:00 " 



SOUTHBOUND 

Leave WASHINGTON 6:45 P.M. 

ALEXANDRIA 7:15 " 

Arrive FORTRESS MONROE ..7K)0 A.M. 

NORFOLK 8KX) " 

PORTSMOUTH 8:15 " 



Close conufcciion aiade vrith all raii liiies at Norfolk, Fortress Moriroe a:.d V/aih.ir.^.on, D. C, for all i>oints North, 
South, East and West. 

Passei^ers going or returning to Wilmington, Raleigh. Charlor.e, CharleEV^n, .Savarinah. Atlanta. Jacksonville and 
principal Southern cities, are given an opportunity by this route to stop over at the National Capital, Fortress Monroe or 
Virginia Beach. 

By taking this route the passenger is afforded a pleasant ride on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, thi« 
breaking the monotony of an all-rail ride. 

The excellence of the meals furnished on these magnificeBt steamers has been a great factor in their popularity. 
The dining rocmi service is a la carte, meals being served at hours convenient to the passengers. 

Ask for tickets via the new Norfolk and Washington line of steamers. 



D. J. CAIXAHAN 

Gen'l Manager, Washington, D. C. 



WM, H. CALLAHAN, G. P. A. 

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New York 

Philadelphia 

Baltimore 

Washington 

Pittsburg 

Cleveland 



Chicago 

St. Louis 

Cincinnati 

Louisville 

Wheeling 

Columbus 



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"All through trains via Washington. Direct connections 
in Union Station with all lines to and from the South" 



ROYAL BLUE TRAINS 

"Every Odd Hour" "Every Even Hour" 

Washington to New York New York to Washington 

"Royal Limited"— All Pullman— finest day train in America 

C. W. BASSETT B. N. AUSTIN 

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Baltimore, Md. Chicago, 111. 

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The Most Interesting Way 



between the 



North ^nd South 



is over the 



Louisville & Nashville R. R. 

Through solid trains of coaches and sleeping cars be- 
tween Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Ev- 
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and 

Jacksonville 

affording a variety of first-class routes. 

also between the above cities and 

New Orleans, Pensacola, Mobile 
and Gulf Coast Resorts 



Through sleeping cars also between Jacksonville, 
Pensacola, New Orleans, and Gulf Coast Resorts. 



For literature, folders, etc., address 
W. A. RUSSELL, G. P. A., k'i'i^fyj'c'K?: 

OR 

T. B. WALKER, Fla. Pass. Agent, 

118 WEST BAY ST., JACKSONVILLE. FLA. 




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"BIG FOUR ROUTE" 



, NEWYORK , 

(entral 



The Road with the Service 

TO FLORIDA 



THROUGH SLEEPERS 



BETWEEN 



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"AMERICA'S GREATEST 

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Chicago and Jacksonville and 
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For information consult nearest Ticket Agent Big Four Route 
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FOR 



SUMMER HOME 

VACATION 

OUTING 



LONG ISLAND embraces all the conditions conducive to Health, Recreation, and Pleasure; 
BOATING, SURF AND STILL WATER BATHING, FRESH AND SALT WATER 
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Over 400 Miles of Shore Line 
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The hilly, tree-clad Nortli Shore, bordering on Long Island Sound and indented with 
small bays, ideal for boating. 

The South Shore, with its perfect beaches on the Ocean, and Great South Bay, afford 
the fullest opportunity for aquatic sports. 

The Central Section, with its running streams and charming little lakes is attractive 
for those who prefer the interior country. 

For Booklet descriptive of Long Island send 6 cents in postage to the General Passenger Agent 

LONG ISLAND RAILROAD 

263 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 



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Havana Nassau Port Tampa 

Miami Key West 

To enjoy the Vacation Period visit 
CUBA or the 

BAHAMA SHORT 

ISLANDS DELIGHTFUL 

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via the 

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R. H. SAWYER & CO., General Agents, Nassau, N. P., Bahamas 

J. W. MORRIS, Agent, Port Tampa. Florida 

R. H. WHITNALL, Agent, Knights Key, Florida 

L. C. BRANNING, Agent, Miami, Florida 

A. C. ELGIN, Agent, Key West. Florida 

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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



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Queenstown, Fishguard, Liverpool, London, Paris 




NEW YORK-LIVERPOOL SERVICE 



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32,500 TONS 32,500 TONS 

Quickest Route to London and the Continent via Fishguard 



CAMPANIA 
UMBRIA - 



SAXONIA 



13.000 Tons 
8,200 '■ 



CARMANIA 
CARONIA 



BOSTON-LIVERPOOL SERVICE 



SYLVANIA 



14,300 Tons I IVERNIA 



5,600 Tons 



20.000 Tons 
20,000 ■' 



14,100 Tons 



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CARPATHIA 
SAXONIA 



13.b00 Tons 
14.300 " 



PANNONIA 
ULTONIA - 



lii,<M»0 Tons 
10,400 '• 



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of ideal cruises to Egypt, with intermediate stops at the Azores, Madeira, Gibraltar, Genoa and Naples, calling 
at Fiume on the return trip. The Caronia and Carmania have been selected for these cruises as embodying 
the unsurpassed in luxurious and comfortable ocean travel. 

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OFFICES 

NEW YORK. Cor. Broadway ®. 30th Si. RICHMOND, - 838 East Main Street 

BOSTON. - 248 Washington Street JACKSONVILLE. 138 West Bay Street 

PHILADELPHIA. • 1019 Chestnut Street TAMPA, - 310 Madison Street 

BALTIMORE, Cor. Light ®. German Sts. SAVANNAH, - - De Soto Hotel 

WASHINGTON, 1419 New York Ave., N.W. CHARLESTON. - 195 Meeting Street 

W. J. CRAIG, Passenger Traffic Manager 

T. C. WHITE. General Passenger Agent, - WILMINGTON. N. C. 

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S. S. "ALMIRANTE' 



Ten New 5,000 Ton Steamships "Tard^oThT"" 

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY'S 
GREAT WHITE FLEET 

Providing the most luxurious service to the tropics. Accommodations include 
private suites with connecting bath and toilet, handsomely decorated social 
and smoking rooms, broad decks, staterooms with connecting bath, smoking 
balcony and wireless telegraph. Cooling devices are provided, by means of 
which temperature of accommodations may be regulated to suit. 

^ Four of these steamers sail weekly from New York to Port Antonio and 
Kingston, Jamaica; Colon, Panama (Panama Canal) and Colombian Ports. 
The remaining six sail from New Odeans weekly for Colon, Panama and 
Limon, Costa Rica and weekly for Belize, British Honduras; Barrios, 
Guatemala; Limon, Costa Rica, and Bocas del Toro, Panama. 

^ The " Admiral " steamers sail between the United States and Port 
Antonio, Jamaica, as follows: In the Fall and Winter weekly from Phila- 
delphia and fortnightly from New York; in Spring and Summer weekly 
from Boston and fortnightly from Philadelphia. 

^ The steamships " Brookline " and " Barnstable 
Baltimore, Md., and Port Antonio, Jamaica. 

^ Other services from Jamaica to Charleston, S. C 
to Limon, Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro, Panama. 

^ For particulars as to service, rates, etc., apply to United Fruit Company 
at above ports, or 

M. J. DEMPSEY, GEORGE O. SOMERS, 

Assistant General Traffic Manager, General Traffic Manager, 

New Orleans, La. 17 Battery Place, New York 



sail weekly between 
and from Mobile, Ala. 



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Hotel TrayiTiore 



OCEAN^pSoNtATLANT1CCITY,NJ. eOOGue,.. 

A MAGNIFICENT TEN STORY FIRE-PROOF 

ADDITION is just being completed 

MAKING THIS FAMOUS HOSTELRY THE NEWEST AND MOST 

UP-TO-DATE OF ATLANTIC CITY HOTELS 




A FEATURE OP THE ADDITION IS IHE L'NUSUAL SIZE OF BEDROOMS. 
AVERAOINQ I* FEET SQUARE 

THE new ten-story addition directly on the Boardwalk li ot hollow tile and leinforced concrete coriitruction. 
Absolutely fire-proof and tree trom dampness. Every room commands an ocean new, bath attached witti 
sea and fresh water. Cheval-glass in every chamber, lempcraturc rc;^ula,ted by Thermostat, the latest 
development in steam heating. Telephone in every room A spacious solarium facing the sea The house is 
thoroughly and completely equipped with every modern convenience and luxury Coll privileges 

Write for Illustrated Booklet 
CHAS. 0. MARQUETTE. M.o.gc, TRaVMURE HOTEL COiV\PA^Y. D.-s vhite. i>«.id«, 



GALEN HALL 



Atlantic City, N. J. 




HOTEL AND SANATORIUM 



Modern Stone, Brick and Steel Building, with every hotel convenience: Elevators, Steam Heat, Electric Light, Sun 
Parlors on each floor, and elevated Solarium with grand view of ocean. Rooms with private baths with Sea Water. Bath 
department a special feature. The rooms attractively fitted in Marble. All that is newest and best in Electricity. Manual 
and Mechanical treatments. Sea Water m Baths, and all Hydriatic Apparatus. Massage for both Ladies and Gentlemen 
by attendants of superior training. Write for booklet to F. L. YOUNG, General Manager. 

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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 



The Most Advanced Step 

IN== 

Modern Journalism 



THE ATLANTIC 
DAILY NEWS 



A newspaper in Alagazine form published on twenty-seven 
of tlie principal Trans-Atlantic Steamships. 

Contains a snmmary of the world s news, stock market quo- 
tations and reports, and sportinc^ g-ossip. prejjared by the Asso- 
ciated Press and Renters Agency and transmitted daily by Mar- 
coni Wireless Telegraph. 

The Atlantic Daily News is distributed to cabin passengers 
and therefore is read by the best class of travelers. 

It has the onlv Exclusively High Class Circulation in the 
Publication World. 

For sample copy and further information address the 



Department Atlantic Daily News 

MARCONI WIRELESS TELEGRAPH 
COMPANY OF AMERICA 

Lords Court Building 
27 William Street - - - - New York 



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TOURIST ROUTES. 



It's Summer Now 



IN 



JAMAICA 

" The Land of Scenic and Climatic Perfection " 

' I 'O add to the delightful charms of a winter vacation in 
^ Jamaica and the West Indies, and to experience the 
pleasures of luxurious voyagmg, make the ocean trip in one 
of the superb 6,000-ton PRINZ steamers of the ATLAS 
SERVICE, sailing weekly from New York. 



' I 'HESE vessels offer all the comforts and conveniences 
*' of our well known trans-Atlantic steamers. They are 
ideally adapted for this service. 

/COMMODIOUS and homelike staterooms, splendid 
^^ saloons, spacious decks, excellent cuisine. 

Rates to Jamaica ^$45^0^ ^**$85.oo"'' 

Also cruises of 3 weeks' duration and longer, calling at 

Jamaica, Colon (Panama Canal) Colombia, Costa 
Rica, Hayti and Nicaragua 

Leave New York every week. Rate, including stateroom accommo- 
dations and meals, $140 upwards 



Send for booklet giving full particulars 

Hamburg-American Line 

41-45 Broadway, New York 

Boston Philadelphia 

Chicago St. Louis 

San Francisco f 





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ALGONQUIN 

NATIONAL PARK 

OF ONTARIO, CANADA 



2,000 Acres of Fish 
and Game Preserve 



A Woodland Paradise for the Fisherman 
and Camper, 2,000 feet above sea level 




"CAMP LIFE IN ALGONQUIN PARK." 

Speckled trout, salmon trout and black bass abound in the 1 ,200 lakes and 
rivers of this vast territory. Camp out and "rough " it ; or if you prefer the 
best hotel accommodations make it an ideal summering place for tourists. 
A beautifully illustrated publication which gives careful description, maps, etc., 
sent free on application to F. P. DWYER, 290 Broadway, New York. 



W. E. DAVIS, Passenger Traffic Manager - 
G. T. BELL, Asst. Passenger Traffic Manager 
GEO. W. VAUX, General Passenger Agent 



Montreal, Que. 
Montreal, Que. 
Montreal, Que. 



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Where Are ^ou Going J^ejci Summer? 

The Canadian Rockies, Along the Line of the 

Canadian Pacific 

Offer unrivalled attractions. Ever increasing in popularity are the mountain resorts at 

Banff, Laggan, Lake Louise, Lakes in the Clouds, Emerald 
Lake, Yoho Valley and Glacier, 

amid scenery of unequalled magnificence and rugged grandeur. Hotels and 
Camps at various points, under the management of the Company. 

To Sportsmen we earnestly recommend the perusal of our booklet " Fishing 
and Shooting." It tells the story of the best Hunting and Fishing country in 
America. 

PACIFIC OCEAN SERVICE 

From VANCOUVER. B. C. 

Our Fleet of "EMPRESS" Steamships to CHINA and JAPAN 

Connecting with all Asiatic points. 

The Popular CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN Royal Mail Steamships 

To Hawaii and Fiji Islands, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia 

Connecting with all Australasian points 

Canadian-Pacific Coast Lines to Alaska, British Columbia and 
Puget Sound Points 

Frequent Sailings First-Class Service 

ATLANTIC OCEAN SERVICE 

Between Quebec and Liverpool 

Our magnificent Steamships 

EMPRESS OF BRITAIN EMPRESS OF IRELAND 

Make the journey in six days — two days on the waters of the 

sheltered St. Lawrence, only four days in the open sea 

Our One Class Cabin Steamships Offer Excellent Accommodations 



WE CAN TICKET YOU AROUND THE WORLD 

For booklets, rates and all information, apply to any Canadian Pacific Agent in any part of the 
World, or at Foster & Reynolds Information Bureaus at Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Palm 
Beach, Daytona and Miami, Fla. 

Allan Cameron, G. T. A. C. E. E. Ussher, A. P. T. M., W. L, Robt. Kerr, P. T. M. 

458 Broadway, New York Winnipeg, Man. Montreal, Que. 



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"A Hundred 

Golden Hours 

At Sea" 

A booklet you should have. It is 
beautifully and profusely illustrated, 
interesting and instructive. De- 
scribes the pleasures of a trip on 
one of the magnificent 

Southern Pacific 
Steamships 

New York to New Orleans 

in connection with a delightful 
journey over the 

SUNSET ROUTE 

New Orleans to San Francisco 

Send for it and information about 
CIRCULAR TOUR TICKETS 

L. H. NUTTING, G. P. A. 
Nos. 1158, 366 or 1 Broadway 



Ne 



York 



In the manufacture of 

*S^fi^ COCOA 

Cocoa Beans of the highest grades only, 
scientfically blended, are used. 

Cleanliness and Workmanship in our Plant 

are as carefully scrutinized as is the 

quality of material used. 

Under such conditions it is not surprising 



that 




'/ COCOA 



is the acknowledged Best in the World. 

The standard by which others are judged. 

Quality higher than price. 

Price within the reach of all. 




THE NEW EDITION OF THE 

WASHINGTON 

STANDARD GUIDE 

Is the latest, largest, best and most 
complete and beautiful guide for 
visitors in Washington. 

It fully describes and illustrates: 

THE CAPITOL, 

THE LIBRARY, 

THE CORCORAN GALLERY, 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

THE TREASURY, 

SMITHSONIAN AND NATIONAL MUSEUM, 

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, 

THE SOLDIERS' HOME, 

ARLINGTON, 

MOUNT VERNON. 

1 50 Illustrations 
PRICE, - 25 CENTS 

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EAGAlfoNa-EAND 



SUMMER. 



^JXTINTER. 



NE\7 • E N GLAND 
IS THE COUNTRY'S PREMIER VACATION PLACE. 

"T^he Scenic Grandeur of the White Mountains, the Regal Splendor 
■*- of the Lake Region and the Famous North Slioreare Distinctive 
Attractions appreciated by the discriminating tourist from everywliere. 
"T'lie Delightful Invigorating Climate, Grand Scenery. Ideal Hotel 
Life and every Outdoor Pastime is described and illustrated in the 
Several Booklets which may be obtained for the cost of postage. 
IT WILL BE A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU PROMPTLY. 

J. FLAN DE RS, P.T. M . BOSTON, MASS. C.M.BURT.G.P 



Boston 
t Maine 

" Railroad 





Boston I 
f Maine, 

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HOTEL DENNIS SirS?.'? 



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Situated directly on the ocean front, surrounded by its own spacious lawn, which joins the beach and 
boardwalk. Is open the entire year, and on account of its liberal appointments and careful service is an 
ideal home for the Summer or Winter guest. WALTER J. BUZBY, Owner and Proprietor 



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TOURIST ROUTES. 




Ruins of Yucatan — Chichen-ltza. The sacrificial temple erected on an artificial pyramid liO teet high. 

The Wonderful Mayan Cities of 

The World's Greatest Archaeological Marvels 

THE tourist in Yucatan will find, in the ancient Mayan cities, sights and scenes which 
can be found nowhere else upon the earth. On this small peninsula of Yucatan 
are numberless monuments of a prehistoric race, a race to which is conceded the very 
first rank among the earliest inhabitants of the Western World. They surpassed the 
Aztecs and the South American peoples in architecture and sculpture and they stand 
alone as the sole possessor of a phonetic language. The amazed wanderer among their 
gigantic mounds and crumbling pyramids will find new marvels awaiting his examination 
at every turn. 

Merida, the capital of Yucatan, will be found unexpectedly interesting. It has a 
delightful winter climate, excellent modem hotels, asphalted streets, cement sidewalks, 
a handsome cathedral, a magnificent new theater, many fine municipal and government 
buildings, and good shops of all kinds. Its inhabitants are hospitable and courteous. 
Travel facilities hrom Merida into the interior and to the wonderful Mayan ruins, are 
excellent, being by railroad or coach. 

Progreso (the port of Yucatan), 22 miles from Merida, is easily reached from 
Florida (via Havana). Weekly service by Ward Line steamers. 

For literature and further particulars, address 

NEW YORK AND CUBA MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. 

H. E. Cabaud, General Agent Pier 14, East River, New York City 

Or 

THE UNITED RAILROADS OF YUCATAN 

F. W. Blake, General Manager Merida. Yucatan, Mexico 

Or 

YUCATAN TOURS BUREAU 

W. P. Young, Manager ........ P. O. Box 25, Progreso, Yucatan, Mexico 



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JAMAICA 



KINGSTON' 



PORT ANTONIO 



Famous Winter Resorts 




THE S. S. Aviles is the only steamship carrying passengers between Santiago 
de Cuba and Kingston and Port Antonio, Jamaica, and is a commodious 
sea-going vessel, fitted with electric lights, social hall, promenade decks, etc 
Present sailings from Santiago de Cuba : every Wednesday — and from Kingston, 
Jamaica, every Saturday, touching at Port Antonio when sufficient passengers offer. 

Weekly connection at Kingston with the magnificent passenger steamers of 
the Hamburg- American (Atlas Service) , and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. for 
Colon, PANAMA, Central and South America Ports, the West Indies, New 
York and Europe. 

Present schedule subject to change due to increasing traffic — therefore "ASK 
MR. FOSTER " at any of his offices or communicate direct to the agents. 



Companta Cubana de NaVegacion 



MESSRS. BRAVO & COMPANY 

General Agents 

Marina Baja 49 - Santiago de Cuba 



HAMBURG AMERICAN UNE, Agents 
E. A. H. HAGGART, Agent 



Colon, Panama 
Kingston, Jamaica 



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The Pleasure 
of Your Trip 

Will be enhanced by a box of 



Lenojc Chocolates 



Delicate, creamy, delicious and wholesome, they represent the highest 
possible result of skill, art and experience applied to candy-making 

To b e found at ihe belter Jiores 

Look for f he NECCO SWEETS seal on every box 

Made by 

NEW ENGLAND CONFECTIONERY COMPANY 

BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS 



MAYAN RUINS 
IN YUCATAN 



PERSONALLY conducted excursions are operated from 
Progreso to Merida for the day's trip while Ward Line 
ships remain in the harbor of Progreso; also from 
Merida to the ruins of Uxmal, Chichen, Itza and Izamal, etc.; 
Campeche and other points of interest in Yucatan, covering 
one, two and three days and more. 

Full information will be given at any of Mr. Foster's offices or by Ward Line Agents. 



YUCATAN TOURS BUREAU 

w. p. YOUNG. Manager Progpeso, Yucatan, Mexico 

■ 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE.- 



Uhe ^tamp oj^ 




^^n 



The WATSON & NEWELL CO. 

ATTLEBORO, MASS. 

2?. Sterling Silver Articles 

is an absolute guarantee of the highest stan- 
dard of quality both in workmanship and in 
material, ::::::: 

WATSON & NEWELL CO. have the largest 
line of Sterling Silver Souvenir Spoons in 
America. ::::::: 

The Waf^on S, J^etufett 
Goods are Sold at .... 

THE NATIONAL REMEMBRANCE SHOP. WasKiivgtoA, D. C. 

THE FLORIDA REMEMBRANCE SHOP. Jacksonville. Fla. 

EL UNICO GIFT SHOP. St. Augustine. Fla.. 

THE BOOK SHOP, Palm Beach, Fla. 

HAVANA REMEMBRANCE SHOP, 99 Prado, Havana, Cuba 

And by reliable dealers in Sterling Silver Wares throughout the Country 



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THE STAXDARD GUIDE. 



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Florida^s Greatest Department Store 

IN THE HEART 




Everything 

in 
Ready-to- Wear 

for Men, 
Women & Children 



The 
Largest 



Best Assorted 
Stocks in the South 



TOURISTS VISITING THE CITY 

Will find us prepared to apparel them in correct style for their stay in this 
Southern climate. 

We cordially invite you to make our store your headquarters when in this 
city, and to have your mail addresed here. 



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THE ST. ALBANS 

K. H. CONROY, Proprietor 
329 WEST CHURCH STREET, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



JUST FINISHED. Beautifully furnished throughout with every modern convenience. 
Hot and cold running water, and heat in every room. Within three minutes of Post 
Office. Cuisine unsurpassed in the State. Rates $2.50 per day; $15.00 per week up 

Private Baths Write for Reservations 



The Royal Palms 

Just Completed and Newly Furnished 



No. 225 West Duval Street 
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



All Modern Conveniences, Electric Lights, Steam Heat, Private and Public Baths 

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PLAN 

Rates: European, $1.00 up per day; American, $2.50 up per day 

MRS. J. L. MORGAN 



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THE ARLINGTON 

PALATKA, FLORIDA 

Centrally located near all Steamboat Landings and Railroad Depots. Hot 
and Cold Baths. Electric Lights and Bells. Rates, $2.00 per day and up. 

LOUIS KALBFIELD, Manager 



Dl/JVHAM HO\/SE 



Mrs. D. L. Dunham 

Proprietress 
HIGH CLASS BOARDING HOUSE 

On the Bay. Unobstructed view. All outside rooms. Pleasant surroundings. Rates $1.50 
to $2.00 per day; $7 to $12 per week. Modern sanitation. Baths (hot and cold water) . 

131 Marine Street - - - _ _ st. Augustine, Florida 

Telefono Num. 781 Proprietor: A. PETIT, Successor to Edouard Chaix 

RESTAURANT "PARIS" 

O'REILLY NO. 14, HAVANA 

This well-known restaurant of world-wide renown is the favorite resort of all persons appreciating a firsr-class 
table, and the only one which supplies the very best French and Spanish cooking at reasonable prices. 

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Jacksonville's Newest Hotel 

HOTEL ALBERT 

European Plan. One Hundred Rooms. 
Excellent Cafe. Open All the Year. 



Jacksonville, Florida 



W. A. GUILL & CO., Proprietors 



A. R. EVANS, Manager 



oLJ 1 JiL L^wLLilLirL AlxlVlo Florida 












IDEAL sitiuiiiuii 1111 a hi^h jiiiie ridge, in a dry climate, the air resinous with the odor of pine needles. A 
substantial, finely appointed building, with everything for comfort. Steam heat, electric lights, elevator, 
artesian water. Sun parlor, music hall, orchestra, reading room. Club house, boating, fishing, driving, golf, 
tennis, croquet. Rooms single and en suite, with private baths. Address JOHN G. HOLLAND, Manager. 



DE LAND 

The Athens of Florida 



Seat of the Great 

JOHN B. STETSON UNIVERSITY 

581 STUDENTS LAST YEAR 



^ DE LAND is situated on the high, rolling pine lands of Volusia County, and is surrounded 
by beautiful orange groves. One hundred miles of shelled roads. For further information, 
write to THE VOLUSIA COUNTY RECORD. DeLand; weekly, $1.00 per year. 



PIlTlVAltl IMIV PE LAND, FLORIDA 

•■• ^^ A 1 ^ im.LWM. JLi ^ 1 ^ B. E. BROWN, - Proprietor 

All the comforts of home. All the conveniences of the best hotel service. Accom- 
modations for 125. Rates, $3.00 per day and up. Special by week. For description 
of De Land see text pages of the Guide. 

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advertised, at tlie Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Bretton Woods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 

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Jacksonville Floral Company 



20 Laura St. 

Phone 3296 



THE FLOWER SHOP ^ 



Choice Flowers Delivered Any Point in United States 
Greenhouses and Nursery Evergreen Cemetery - - JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 

Fresh Supplies and Prompt Attention 
to Orders for Developing and Printing 
Kodak Pictures :: :: :: :: :: 



EASTMAN KODAKS 

Roll Films developed for 10 cents per roll by same workmen as our beautiful 

FLORIDA VIEWS 
GIBSON BROS. - . 19 Main Street, JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 

I^RS« RICHA^RDS' boarding house 

703 LAURA ST.. JACKSONVILLE. FLA. 

Large, cheerful Rooms. All modern improvements. Five minutes' walk to Post Office, Stores, Churches. 
Cuisine unexcelled. Northern Cooking. Special prices by week or month. 

MRS. MARY F. RICHARDS. Prop. 

NORTHFRN rAFF Jacksonville, fla. 

IIV/IX 1 llllllXll Vx/^I U 15-17 EAST FORSYTH STREET 

First-Class and Up-to-Date 

French and American Cooking. Table d'Hote or a la Carte. We serve only Mocha and Java Coffee 

Phone 699 GEORGE TCIMPIDIS, Manager 

Till? l^/fT I CAXT '^''ASfalirs^sTiets """'^'^^^'•^ 

1 OHi WW l£j£ji9vrlll Jacksonville, fla. 

Centrally located, one block from all car lines. Select and home-like. Electric lights, hot water baths, etc. 
Cuisine unsurpassed. Northern cooking. Rates, $2 per day and up. Special rates by the week. :: :: :: 

K^ITe^diror^'elr As^'Mr.'VotfJr^ T. C. WILLSO N, Proprietor 

LOUGHMAN 
FLORIDA 

A place for people seeking outdoor life. Good hunting, boating, etc. 

Homelike Accommodations T/* *i« Small Private Bungalows 



THE WRAY CAMPS 



MRS. E. C. WRAY, Prop. 



SOUVENIRS AND CURIOS 

VISIT 

THOS. C. IMESON 

226 Hogan Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 

Alligator Goods Our Specialty 

Orange Blossom Perfume and Guava Jelly. Mail orders 
given careful attention. Ask for price list 



Tyler-Phelps Gift Shop Co. 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

Imported and Domestic 
Arts and Crafts ^ ^ 

Winter Season Summer Season 

Daytona. Fla. York Harbor, Me. 



If you want Information, it is all right to ask Mr. Foster. But if you have anything to tell the 
people of Palatka County, there is no better medium than the columns of 

THE PALATKA NEWS 

Published every Friday. Subscription, $ 1 .00 per year. Adverti-ing rates given on application 

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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Bretton Woods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 

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TOURIST ROUTES. 



BEACH & MILLER LINE 

ST. JOHNS RIVER STEAMERS 

Florida's Most Picturesque Daylight Trip 




Green Cove 
Springs 

Riverdale 

Federal Point 

San Mateo 

Palatka 

Crescent City 

St. Johns Park 



Steamers CRESCENT and CLIVEDON leave Jacksonville daily at 8:30 A. M. 
Telephone 615 - - - City Ticket Office No. 16 Hogan St., Jacksonville 

Telephone 2889 ...... Wharf Foot of Laura Street 




HOTEL MARION ^ 



ST. AUGUSTINE 
FLORIDA 



Delightfully situated on the Bay, overlooking the Ocean. All modern improvements. 
Steam heat, electric bells and light in every room. Cuisine Francaise. American 
and European plan. Commercial Headquarters. Rates $2 up. 



H. MULLER 



Proprietor 



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38 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



FLORIDA HOUSE 

HAS MORE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ROOMS 
THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN CITY 



St, Augustine 



Florida 




This popular house is ideally located, has all modern improvements in- 
cluding new private baths, plumbing, etc., and its cuisine is unsurpassed 



Accomnriodates Two Hundred and Fifty 



RATES 

$2.50 and Upward Per Day 

Special Weekly Rates 



O'CONNOR & MAHON, 



Proprietors 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 



Hotel St. George 

St. Avigvistine, Floridec 




ST AUSUSTiME 

FLORIDA 




It*"' 



mm nn 




ELEVATOR STEAM HEAT 

PRIVATE BATHS 
ELECTRIC LIGHTS IN EVERY ROOM 



M. B. MONTGOMERY, of Huestis House, Saratoga. 
Owner and Proprietor 



^sK. MR. FOSTER 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 




GRANADA HOTEL. .^ St. Augustine, Floridai 



OPPOSITE THE PONCE DE LEON 



Private and Public Baths. American Plan. Rates: $2.50 and Up per Day. $15.00 and Up per Week 
F. O. DUNHAM ^ j* Proprietor 

THE SPEAR MANSION ^t^--^'- 



St. Augustine, Fla. 



OPEN THE YEAR ROUND 



ONE BLOCK FROM POST OFFICE AND PONCE DE LEON. IN CENTER OF CITY 




Rates from $2.00 per Day up. Special by the Week and to Large Parties. Home Cooking 
a Specialty. Private Baths. 

MRS. A. R. SPENCER, Proprietor. 



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HOTEL BUCKINGHAM 



ST. AUGUSTINE 
FLORIDA 



Newly Furnished and Renovated 



Under New Management 



"The Family Hotel," directly opposite and facing the main entrances of the Ponce de Leon and Alcazar. Sur- 
rounded with spacious grounds and tropical palms and flowers. Private baths. Cuume and service unsurpassed. All 

amusements. * ,- i i o • i 

Rates $2.50 per day and up. Special weekly and season rates. 

BUCKINGHAM HOTEL CO., Prop. 



Bus Meets All Trains 



Write for Booklet 



ADVERTISE IN 

The Evening Record 



Only Daily published at St. Augustine, Florida, at the head 
of the Great Fruit Belt. Only Daily published on the East 
Coast of Florida between Jacksonville and Miami, a dis- 
tance of 366 miles. The Record is read throughout the most 
prosperous Farming and Fruit Growing Section in the South. 

ADVERTISING RATES SENT ON APPLICATION. 



Published by THE RECORD COMPANY 

Printers. Publishers, Binders, Rulers, Blank Book Manufacturers, Stationers, 
^ WKolesaLle a-rvd RetaLiI Pa-per Dezk-lers, Loose-Lea.f Ledger Systems. ^ 

St. Augustine Florida 

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42 



TOURIST RESORTS. 




THE VEDDER COLLECTION. 



' I 'HE MUSEUM belonging to the St. Augustine Institute of Science and 
Historical Society is now shown in the old house corner of Bay and Treasury 
Streets. The house is one of the oldest in the city It has never been remodeled 
The cedar beams are uncovered just as they were when the house was built centuries 
ago. The immense old fire-place is of itself well worth seeing. The room in which 
the fire-place is shown was for many years the City Prison, while the remainder of 
the house was devoted to the purposes of the Court. 

The Museum now comprises the well known Vedder Collection which the late 
Dr. Vedder was so many years in gathering and which covers so completely the 
Natural History of Florida. 

To this are added the other Collections of the Society, comprising prehistoric 
implements and weapons from the shell heaps of the East Coast of Florida, showing 
all that we know of the prehistoric dwellers in Florida. Implements and weapons 
from the Indian burial mounds. Relics from the Spanish occupation and from the 
early wars. Maps relating to early Florida. These fill five rooms in the building 
The whole collection is well worth seeing by every visitor to St. Augustine. 



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43 



TOURIST RESORTS. 




Visit Dodge's Oldest 
House in America 



J. p. DODGE, Proprietor 

54 North St. George St. 
ST. AU G U S T I N E 

A. D. 1565 

A quaint and interesting place to visit 

Ancient City Souvenirs in attractive forms 

Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Repairing 



Strictly Northern Home Cooking 



Everything Modern 



HOTEL CLAIRMONT 



MRS. A. BOUTELLE, Proprietress 

St. George St., Opposite Magnolia Hotel ST. AGUSTINE, FLORIDA 

Rates : $2.00 to $3.00 Per Day. Special by the Week 



St. Augustine, Fla. 

Cor. Marine and Bridge Sts. 



Hotel Ld^ Borde 

Three blocks from the Park, Overlooking the Bay and Ocean. Electric Lights 
in every Room. Hot and Cold Water Baths. Large Pleasant Rooms. 
Rates, $1.50 per day up. Special rates by the w^eek. :: :: :t :: 

Home Cooking a Specialty MRS. J. COWAN, Proprietress 



To get at the Real Facts 

of the Rapid Progress and Marvelous Development of the State of 
Florida, without any admixture of " hot air " or partiality towards any 
section of the State, you should read 

Florida Enterpri4:e 

the new monthly magazine published in Jacksonville. Price $ 1 .00 a 
year. Sample copies free. Send us your name and tell us what 

you are interested in. Advertising rates sent on request. 

FLORIDA ENTERPRISE, Jacksonville, Fla. 

Record Building 



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advertised, s'the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
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44 ;'.<.!;: 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



at the r AtvlOl Al 1 \^ Af Hi Cathedral Place, Op. Po'st Office 

GEORGE TCIMPIDIS, Prop. 

Open all the year. First-Class and Up-to-Date. White Service. French and Ameri- 
can Cooking. We use Mocha and Java Coffee. 



Dr. E. M. Goodrich 

SsSfess DENTIST 



OFFICE AND RESIDENCE 
NORTH ST. GEORGE STREET, near the 
City Gates V ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA. 



Of Twenty -Five 
Years' Experience 



For R.eaLl £state ©end Insvirance 

Also Furnished Houses 

GO TO 

EUGENE L. BARNES 



212 St. George St. 



St. Augustine, Fla. 



PHONE 75 



FOSTER COMPANY 



High Grade Men's Outfitter & Ladies' Shoes 

Cor. Beach Street and Orange Avenue, DAYTONA, FLORIDA 

THE SEX^ILLE ^^^^^^^ 



FLOT^^IDA 



RIDGEWOOD AVENUE 



SOUTH STREET 



First-class Family Hotel. Extensive Grounds, Large Rooms, Running Water, Orange Grove, Noted for Excellent 
Cuisine, Comfortable Appointments and Home-like Surroundings. Open, Nov. 1st to May 1st. 

E. H. TX/Tmy. Manager 



M. ELLA DeVOY & COMPANY 
LADIES' HATTERS 

No. 6 South Beach Street 

Latest Styles 
High Class Goods 



DAYTONA 

Artistic Workmanship 
Low Prices 



Daytona E. l. shear 



Steam 



PHONE No. 8 



Cor. Fairview Ave. 
and Beach Street 



Laundry 



THE STILLMAN, °#lVr?d^a^' 

-DWIGHT -R. S^TILLMAJV, Trop'r. Open December 1st to May 1st 

STILLMAN HOUSE. Noyes Beach. R. I. 

June 25th to September 25th. 



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AS 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



DESPLAND HOTEL ^ '^^^^"^ 



FLORIDA 




Largest and bsst hotel in Daytona, recently enlarged by 50 additional rooms, and many with private 
baths. Every modern comfort. Booklet. 

L. M. WAITE. 

THE HAMILTON 



New^ and First-Class 



DAYTONA. FLA. 



Steam Heat 
Electric Light 
Electric Bells 



Elegant Rooms 

with or 
>vithout Batths 



Americaiv Plan 

Rates, $2.30 up Weekly Rates 

MRS. I. M. MABBETTE. Proprietress 



An Elegantly Appointed Small Hotel on 
Ridgewood Ave., two Blocks from Depot 



Steam Heat, Electric Lights. Leu-ge 
Verandas, Lawn, and Shade Trees 



THE ISLIJSfGTOJSf 



MRS. I. B. PARKINSON, Proprietor 



18 S. RIDGEWOOD AVENUE 



DAYTONA, FLORIDA 



T H E H O W A R D ^ fWr?S^ 

New House. First class. All modern improvements. Near the Halifax River; five 
minutes' walk to post office, stores, churches. Cuisine unexcelled ; Northern cooking. 
Rates $2.00 per day and up. Special prices by week or month. 
JOHN C. HOWARD. Proprietor 

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46 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



THE PRINCE GEORGE ^;^JJV2^ 



HILYARD & HOLROYD, 



Proprietors 




^ THE PRINCE GEORGE faces directly on the Halifax River. The piazza, 1 50 feet in length, gives an 
unobstructed view of that beautiful sheet of water. Private pier, billiard parlor, orchestra. Every room steam 
heated. Rates from $3.00 per day upward. ^ The McCoy line steamers CONSTITUTION and REPUBLIC, 
the largest boats on the inland waters plying between St. Augustine and Palm Beach, stop over night at Daytona, 
docking at the PRINCE GEORGE PIER. 

Same Management as THE BRISTOL, Asbury Park, New Jersey 

New Seaside Inn 

has been enlarged to nearly twice 
its original size since last season 

DIRECTLY ON THE ATLANTIC BEACH 

Terms — $2.50 per day and up 

CAPACITY — 251 




SEND FOR BOOKLET 

HORACE F. STEWART 

DAYTONA BEACH, FLA. Proprietor and Owner 




The Pines 

Ridgewood Avenue Daytona, Florida 

MRS. J. B. HINSKY. Proprietress 

Accommodates 50 Guests 
Rates, $2.50 and Up 



„ -. ^ Telephone 
J Private Baths 



Electric Lights Furnace Heat 

Ne-w and Homelike Appointments 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 



THE PRINCESS ISSENA, Seabreeze, Fla. 



%r,'l i 



A 



FINE new stone and frame 
structure situated in the midst 
of five acres of natural park, 
three hundred and seventy-five feet 
fronting on Ocean Boulevard, and five 
minutes' walk to the Atlantic Beach 
on the east or to the Halifax River on 
the west. 

Having had some years' experience 
with the traveling public, the mana- 
gers perceived that a house conductea 
as nearly as possible like an elegant 
private home would be welcome to a 
large percentage of Florida tourists ; 
and they are endeavoring to establish 
the Princess Issena on this rather new- 
basis. While there are all the appoint- 
ments of the thoroughly modern and 
first-class hotel, still home features are 
preserved, not only pertaining to the 
table, but in a pleasing departure from usual hotel interior arrangement of living rooms, chambers, 
halls, etc. 

The bedrooms are large, airy and well lighted, having from two to four windows each ; many sunny 
exposures ; en suite or single ; stationary wash stands, with hot and cold water in every room ; general and 
private baths ; steam heat ; electric lights ; call bells ; telephone in office ; no really small or undesirable 
rooms; good beds; all furnishings fresh, clean and sanitary. 

A principal feature is to make the table as much as possible like a home table, though the dining room 
service is of the usual first-class hotel kind, and the kitchen is under the management of a competent chef ; 
home-made breads, cake and pastry; home-prepared jellies, preserves, marmalades, etc.; pure milk from 
our own cows ; pure, healthful water from artesian well. 

For board and rooms, $3.00 per day and up. Special rates by the month or season. Address 

A. W. POWERS, Proprietor - - Seabreeze, Florida 




BRETTON INN 



AT ORMOND BEACH 
ORMOND. FLORIDA 




'^"'■'^^fflir 



and Cottages to let at 



THE INN is situated on the bluff 
overlooking the ocean and the great 
automobile speedway. It is nearly 
two miles from the railway station and 
half a mile from Hotel Ormond; con- 
nected with both by horse cars, and with 
te latter by plank walk. 

Almost invariably the sea air is bene- 
ficial in cases of overwork and nervous 
prostration. It acts as a tonic, sharpens 
the appetite and induces sleep. 

Ormond is noted for its Shell Roads 
through Tropical Forests; the Ocean 
Beach, with Surf Fishing and Bathing 
every month in the year; its luxuriant 
Orange groves and the Famous To- 

, „ „ - - J moka River Trip. Furnished Camps 

Santa Lucia Orange Grove. Address, GEO. E. JEWELL, Manager, Ormond, Florida. 




ANDERSON m. PRICE HOTEL CO.. Proprietors 

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THE PALMETTO 

DAYTONA, FLORIDA ^^^^^ 



OPEN FROM 
DECEMBER TO MAY 



C. O. CHAMBERLIN 

Proprietor 





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THE PALMETTO has a most desirable location on the river 
side of the city, facing the Halifax, which at this point is nearly 
a mile in width. It is a pleasant house, with large parlors, comfort- 
able chambers and broad piazzas. The house has been enlarged for 
this season. New private baths. Cuisine and service of high stan- 
dard. Terms, $3 oo per day and up. Reasonable weekly rates, and 
special for those remaining during the season. Se7id for booklet, 

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS FOR AUTOMOBILISTS 

Summer Hotel: ADIRONDACK INN, Sacandaga Park, New York 

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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
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TOURIST RESORTS. 

INDIAN RIVER LINE 

STEAMERS CONSTITUTION AND REPUBLIC 
BETWEEN ST. AUGUSTINE AND PALM BEACH 

STEAMER REPUBLIC 

Runs Between ST. AUGUSTINE and DAYTONA Tri-Weekly 

Leaving St. Augustine for Daytona Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8:00 A. M. 

Leaving Daytona for St. Augustine Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 8:00 A. M. 

Stopping at Ormond on flag. Monday's steamer connects with Palm Beach Steamer at Daytona. 

St. Augustine to Daytona . . . $2.00 Round Trip $3.00 

STEAMER CONSTITUTION 

Runs Between DAYTONA and PALM BEACH Weekly 

BOUND SOUTH BOUND NORTH 

Tuesdays 8:00 A. M. leave Daytona for Rockledge Saturday 9:00 A. M. leave Palm Beach for Fort Pierce 

Wednesdays 8:00 A. M. leave Rockledge for Fort Pierce Sunday 8:00 A. M. leave Fort Pierce for Rockledge 

Thursdays 8:00 A. M. leave Fort Pierce for Palm Beach Monday 8:00 A. M. leave Rockledge for Daytona 

Fridays given up to sightseeing in Palm Beach Connecting with Steamer " Republic" for St. Augustine 

Stopping on Flag at Port Orange, Ponce Park, New Smyrna, El Dora, Allenhurst, Titusville, Cocoa, Merrits, 
Indianola, Eau Gallie, Melbourne, Jensen and Walton 
Each Day's Run . . $2.00 Daytona to Palm Beach . . $5.00 Round Trip . . $8.00 

Inquire of McCOY BROS., Daytona, Florida, or at Mr. Foster's Offices 



^ W. H. GARDINER ^ 
Art Shop and Photo Studio 



DAYTONA 
FLORIDA 



Eastman Kodaks and Films ^ ^ Expert Developing and Finishing 

Books, Stationery and Alligator Best Equipped Optical Department 
Goods. Souvenir Post Cards . . On the Florida East Coast 

GEO. H. CLARK 
JEWELER AND STATIONER 

Two Large Stores 124-126 S. Beach St. DAYTONA. FLA. 

Halifax Livery and Transfer Company 

JAMES RIX, Proprietor 

Carriages, Surreys, Phaetons, Top Buggies and Rubber Tired Runabouts. 'Busses 

Meet all Trains. Baggage Hauled 
Phone 120 DAYTONA, FLORIDA 

Daytona, Florida 

p. J. DOYLE, Proprietor 



The Prospect 



Rooms new and elegantly furnished ; with or without private Bath. Steam Heat, Electric 
Lights and Garage conveniences. - - Two blocks from Postoffice and Railroad Station 

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SO 



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HUNDREDS OF MILES OF STILL WAlERa WHLRL 1 HL bOUMD OF OCEAN'S SLKI 
BALMY BREEZES, SALTY FROM THE SEA, ARE NATURE'S CURES 
FOR NERVES O'ERWROUGHT BY MODERN LIFE. 



REAL ESTATE 
^LUMBER^ 



NORMAN S. DAYTON, Daytona, Fla. 

Beach Street, next Post Office 

OFFICE WITH ^jK Mr. Foster 



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51 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



LAKE VIEW HOTEL "^^l^^^Al^t 

This hotel is owned 
and operated by E. C. 
Worrell, of Moores- 
town, N. J., who has 
toured the State of 
Florida for the past 
ten years and ex- 
perienced the short- 
comings of the various 
hotels. After pur- 
chasing the Lake 
View he remodeled 
it, installing private 
baths, steam heat, etc., 
and largely refurnish- 
ing it. 

The Lake View 
Hotel is managed by 
M. F. Wistar. of the 
Pocono Inn, Mount 

Pocono, Pa., which is noted for its fine table, and clean neat rooms, all of which are carried out at the Lake View. 
The town of Leesburg is thrifty and well kept, has large lakes for fishing and sailing. There is good hunting all 
round about. There are stores, churches and schools and everything to make it a desirable place to spend the 
winter. Fine drives lead for miles around. 

Rates Are From $2.50 Per Day Up 
This is the fourth season under Mr. Worrell's ownership, and the house has been enlarged the past summer for 
the accommodation of the fast increasing patronage, which is evidence that the methods pursued at the Lake View 
are appreciated by the public. Write for booklet to M. F. WISTAR, Manager. 




CARNELL'S FLORIDA FRUIT 
PRESERVES 



Homemade Guave Jelly 
Grape-Fruit Marmalade 
Preserved Fig:s 



Sweet Orangfe Marmalade 
Guava Cheese 
Sweet Pickled Figs 



Wild Oran§:e Marmalade 
Chinese Preserved Kumquat 
Candied Oran§:e Peel 



TTHE Homemade Guava Jelly, Marmalades and Tropical Preserves 
manufactured by J AS. Carnell, are among the most delicious 
of Florida fruit products. Their purity and exquisite delicacy of 
l^avor have given them an established reputation. Mr. Carnell 
received the Highest Award at the Pan-American, Charleston and 
St. Louis Expositions and all First Prizes at the Florida State Fair 
of 1901 for Guava Jelly and Florida Preserves. 

For Price List, Address JAS. CARNELL, Ormond, Fla. 

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52 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



HOTEL ROYAL PALM ^nLJ^r"** 




HOTEL Royal Palm. boRT Myers. Lee County. Florida. 



Boating, Fishing, 
Shooting, Golf. 

Those wishing to 
enjoy the most trop- 
ical spot in Florida 
should visit this 
winterretreat, beau- 
tifully located on the 
sylph windingCaloo- 
sahachee, twenty 
miles from the Gulf 
of Mexico. 

Hotel Royal Palm 
is one of the most at- 
tractive and palatial 
hotels in south Flor- 
ida. Since last sea- 
son the hotel has 
been thoroughly 
renovated and newly 
fur ni s hed, and a 
music room, sun par- 
lor, Dutch room and 
fifty bed rooms, all 
with private bath, 
have been added. 
The Club house has 
also been improved 
by the addition of a 
swimming pool, sul- 
phur baths and a 
large number of pri- 
vate baths. 

F. H. ABBOTT 

Manager 




Maitland Inn 

Maitland, Orange Co., Fla. 



Situated in the famous Lake Region 
in the midst of orange groves and 
pine forests. Rates, $2.00 to $3.00 
per day ; $10.00 to $20.00 per week. 
For booklet address 

DAN'L E. JUDD, Proprietor 



Summer Address : SOUTH VIEW INN, 
Lake Side P. O., Litchfield Co., Conn. 




:r: 



Irand View Hotel 



Open All the Year. Wide Porches, 
Pleasant Rooms, Acetylene Gas, Hot 
Baths, Amusement Room. French and 
American Cuisine LJnexcelled. Rates 
$2.50 and up per Day. Special Ar- 
rangements per Week or Month. 



MICHEL BAULET, Proprietor 
EUSTIS, FLORIDA 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 




Briggs Cottage 

West Palm Beach, Florida 

Mrs. H. E. Briggs, Proprietress 



High-Class Boarding House. No Consump- 
tives Taken. Hot and Cold Baths on every 
Floor. Electric Lights Throughout. Con- 
venient to Hotels and Post Office. Evernia 
Street, one and one half blocks from Lake 
Worth. Carriage meets all trains. 

ASK MR. FOSTER 

Terms $2.50 per day, special by the week 

Individual Tables. Table Board by Arrangement 



THE GABLES Among the Palms 

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. 

N. B. MACGRIFF (formerly of THE GABLES in Daytona and THE OAKS in Miami) Proprietor. 

Two blocks from Post Office and Bay. Modern. Rates on application. 

A. L. W. SAUNDERS «^^V&y?or**=« 

CORNER OLIVE AND DATURA STREETS 

DRESSMAKING 



Dresses Furnished Complete. Hand Made Gowns. Hand Made Laces, Crochets, etc. 



THE KEYSTONE 



NOW OPEN 



Datura St., near Center of Town 



Recently Enlarged and Renovated 

An Ideal Family Hotel. Good Home Cooking and Well-Ventilated Sleeping Rooms, Hot and Cold Baths, 
Electric Lights and Modern Improvements. Rates: $2.00 per day and up, special rates by the week 



MRS. BENJ. COOK, Prop. 



WEST PALM BEACH 



THE DALLAS LODGE 

MIAMI. FLORIDA STRICTLY EUROPEAN 

Wide Porches, Pleasant Rooms, Electric Lights. Central Location — near 

Park, Water, Churches and Postoffice. 

All Modern Conveniences MRS. E. S. HUDDLESTON 



THE ST. CHARLES 



ORLANDO 

FLORIDA 



HILPERT <a FAUL. Proprietors 



Centrally Located. 



Three Minutes' Walk from Post Office, Churches, etc. 
Light, Private Baths, Beautiful Grounds. 



Electric 



J. B. WOFFORD 



Livery, Sale and Transfer Stable 

To all Points of Interest Automobiles for Hire 
333-335 Eleventh Street Phone 43-A MIAMI, FLORIDA 

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HOTEL "THE PALMS, 



99 WEST PALM BEACH 

Ng v« FLORIDA ^ Ng 




A homelike hotel, well appointed, giving the comforts without the cost of the more expensive ones. Fronting on beautiful 
Lake Worth, opposite the Royal Poinciana Hotel. Enlarged this year by a four-story stone addition, making it one of 
the attractive hotels of West Palm Beach. Excellent fishing in Lake Worth, also in the bodies of fresh water three 
quarters of a mile away. White waitresses and cooks from the famous White Mountain hotels are employed, insuring 
first-class service to guests. Electric lights and bells throughout the hotel. Private and public baths. The hotel remains 
open until May 1. Rates, $2.50 per day upward. For further particulars address 

HOTEL "THE PALMS." West Palm Beach. Florida 




Hotel Boynton 

BOYNTON, FLORIDA 



Twelve miles south of Palm Beach. On 
ocean ridge with 20-foot elevation. Fish- 
ing, bathing and hunting. 



Rates $2.00 to $3.00 



Prado and 
Central Park 



^^K Mr. Foster, 

About the beautiful winter home 
sites, and the orange, grapefruit and 
pineapple lands at Santa Maria. 

Quickly reached by rail or auto. Western Railway and new Govern- 
ment macadam road cross the property. Moderate prices. 

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THE GRALYNN, Miami, Florida 



The Gralynn is in 
every way a first-class 
hotel and lias a fine lo- 



It is two blocks from 
the Bay and River, one 
blocic from the Royal 
Palm Park and golf 
grounds, and very con- 
venient to post office 
and ciuirches. 




Rooms single, or en suite with bath. 



Rates $3.00 up per day. SALEM GRAHAM, Proprietor 







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Its Pleasant Airy Rooms, Broad Verandas and 

Well Kept Table Make it One of the Most 

Desirable, Home-Like Places in Miami. 

Boyd Cottage 

Near Boulevard and Overlooking Biscayne Bay, 
Convenient to Railroad Station. 



120 Eighth Street, 

MIAMI, FLORIDA 



FOR REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE 
ALSO FURNISHED COTTAGES 

All modern. For season or all year round. Fine mcome paying Grape Fruit Groves for sale, 
also vegetable lands and unimproved tracts. Beautiful vv^ater front homes. Call or write 

Mrs. E. C. McAllister, - Miami, Fla. 

No. 320 1-2 12th Street - - Suite 2, Hatchett Building 

DESIRABLE NORTH CAROLINA PROPERTY AT TOXAWAY 



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(( 



EVERYBODY GOES TO PALM BEACH" 



MANY PREFER 



HOTEL PALM BEACH 

LOCATED BETWEEN THE OCEAN AND PALM-FRINGED LAKE WORTH, ADJOINING ITS 
IMMENSE NEIGHBOR, THE "ROYAL POINCIANA HOTEL AND GARDENS." 

The tourist, just south for a few days, families returning year after year, making it 
their winter home, find its location, advantages, informalities, appointments and moderate 
rates quite suitable. 



New large modern hotel. 



Maintains refined patronage. Superior service 



Open January, February and March 

RATES, $3.50 PER DAY AND UP. SPECIAL WEEKLY 
Fifty rooms with private bath 




OVERLOOKS LAKE, WITH SURF BATHING IN THE REAR, 
AMID ORANGE AND COCOANUT GROVES. 

Annual Venetian Carnival and Motor Boat Races in March 

No resort in the South where there is so much to do and to be seen. Many who 
visit Palm Beach and enjoy its social gaieties and out door life find this large, new, modern 
hotel a delightful spot with many home comforts and less of the formalities necesssary at 
the largest hotel. All privileges of the resort. 

Get off at Palm Beach Station (not West Palm Beach), where our porters meet 
all trains. 

WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET 



Management: 

A. S. WASHBURNE 

WM. G. HAVILL 

SIDNEY MADDOCK, Owner 



Address "Hotel Palm Beach" 

Palm Beach, Florida 
Golf, Surf Batliing, Band Concerts, Boating, Hunting, Tropical Rides! 



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IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH 



FOR 



Mr. FOSTER 



That's the reason he selected my store as 
his Headquarters — and he did — you'll 
find him here when you call — and you will. 



A truly metropolitan drug store, pure drugs, 
careful prescription service. Full stock of 
toilet necessities and luxuries — finest foun- 
tain in the state. :: :: :: :: :: 

IN THE VERY HEART OF THE CITY. 



COTTER'S DRUG STORE 

Successor to Morton Drug Co. 

615-17 Franklin Street 
TAMPA FLORIDA 



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TAMPA 

"GROWING BY DOING" 



A very accessible and most delightful WINTER 
RESORT and region of WINTER HOMES 

TAMPA is a city of over 50,000 people, with all the advantages of any city 
in the North twice its size ; ideal city for all who desire temporary or 
permanent homes in a genial clime, a haven of marvelous- beauty and 
restfulness ; telephone, gas, electricity, street railways, pure city water, 
perfect sewage system; sixty miles of vitrified brick paving, 250 miles of hard 
surfaced roads, 400 automobiles owned by citizens, and is the 

MECCA FOR AUTOMOBILISTS 

where one can drive with comfort and pleasure every day in the year. Has best 
schools, handsome churches. Elks Club, German Club, Spanish Club, in their own 
buildings ; one vaudeville house, one stock house and one theatre playing best 
road attractions. 

NOT A DULL MOMENT IN TAMPA 

Tampa appeals to the tourist. It has a $3,000,000 hotel owned by the city, set in 
a tropical garden of 6 7 acres unsurpassed in beauty, and a score of other good hotels ; 
has the only Cuban city in America with its quaint stores, its restaurants, club houses, 
etc. Amusement parks, picnic grounds, beautiful driveways. 

FISHING, YACHTING AND GULF EXCURSIONS 

Tampa is situated on Tampa Bay, eighteen miles from the Gulf of Mexico. The bay 
is a fascinating body of water and is gay with motor boats, sail and row boats. The 
best fishing in the south is off Tampa. Pleasure trips can be had daily on steamers 
to all resort cities along the west coast. There are fete days, carnival, a 1 00-day race 
meet, automobile races, base ball, etc. 

FOR THE INVESTOR 

Tampa is destined to become the Marseilles of America and within four years will 
have 1 00,000 population. It is the connecting link between Washington, D. C, and 
the Panama Canal. Within a year there will be 24 feet of water to Main street. 
There is now established a 20 foot channel. Tampa is center and shipping point of 
the citrus crop, the vegetable crop, phosphate, Fuller's earth, cattle, naval stores, 
lumber, crate material, etc. From January 1 to October 1 , 1 909, the commerce to 
Tampa by water increased 56 per cent. All comparative statistics show 25 to 50 
per cent, over previous year. Its manufacturers pay out $250,000 a week 

in wages. Forty wholesale concerns 

do $20,000,000 business yearly. 
For full information, booklets, maps, 

etc., address. 



Reached direct by 
Atlantic Coast Line 
Railroad, Seaboard 
Air Line Railroad, 
Mallory Line Steam- 
ship from New York 



Secretary Board of Trade 

Tampa, Fla. 



Gateway to Key 
West, Havana and 
all Gulf of Mexico 
Ports, and by Rail 
to all South Florida 



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HOTEL TROTCHA 

VEDADO. HAVANA 

The Trotcha is surrounded with large gardens of tropical flowers 
and fruit; overlooking the ocean, directly on the Gulf Stream, 
with balmy breezes and the finest winter climate in the world 

Management and servants speak English. Our dining arrangements are a pleasant public room, private rooms opening on 
the flower gardens and cozy retired arbors in the gardens. The grounds are brilliantly illuminated at night and the arbors 

have colored fairy lamps. If you 
are not stopping at the Trotcha, 
come and visit us; hear the music 
and enjoy the sea breezes. Re- 
freshments, meals or lunch served 
at all hours, day or night. Rates 
lower than any other first-class 
hotel in Havana. Service and 
surroundings perfect. Spacious 
rooms with private baths; modern 
sanitary plumbing and every 
convenience of an American 
high-grade hotel. 

One short block from the 
electric car line. Cars every 
three minutes. Ten minutes to 
Havana. Five cent fare. Take 
any car marked Vedado, say 
"Trotcha Hotel" to the con- 
ductor, and he will let you off at 
Second Street. 

V. TROTCHA. 

Proprietor 





The American Home 

(REYNOLDS') 

PRADO No. 27, HAVANA 

FIRST-CLASS HOTEL 
AMERICAN SERVICE 

Located on Havana's Principal Thoroughfare 




HOTEL BROOKLYN 

Prado 97, Havana 

American Family Hotel. Home Cooking 
Table d'hote and a la carte. Fronting 
Park. Choice rooms, American beds. 
American maids. Cable address: 
"Brooklyn," Havana. 



Mrs. H. WEIDEMANN, 



Proprietress 



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HOTEL SEVILLA 




Havana's New and Up-to-Date 
Fireproof Hotel 



All Rooms with Bath and Every 
Modern Improvement 



Cable Address: 
SEVILLA--HAVANA 



* i^ Conducted on Highest Standard. 
J American Service and Cuisine 

URBANO GONZALEZ & MANUEL LOPEZ 
Proprietors 



HOTEL PASAJE 




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Completely Renovated. The Largest Aristocratic and Com- 
mercial Hotel in the City. Favorite Headquarters for Tourists 



Cable Address: Pasaje, Havana 



URBANO GONZALEZ & BROTHERS, Proprietors 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 
T. H. HARRIS, President C. M. JOHNSON, Gen'l Manager 

CAPITAL— $440,000.00 



THE 

HERRADURA LAND 
COMPANY 



Founders of the AU-American town of Herradura, in the 
Province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, offer for sale lots in a town 
which has passed the pioneer stage and now has American 
School, Stores, Church, Telegraph, Money Order Post-Office, 
Ladies' Social Club, an Agricultural Society, and a modern, 
well-equipped hotel under good management. 

Surrounding the town are 1 2,000 acres of land, which the 
Company sell in tracts of any size from five acres up ; also 
orange and grapefruit groves from two to four years old, which 
can be bought in tracts of five acres or more. The four-year- 
old groves are in bearing. 

Herradura is connected with Havana by the Western Railway 
and a fine Government Automobile road, upon which the Her- 
radura Land Company have touring cars between their office in 
the Plaza Hotel Building, Havana, and the Hotel at Herradura. 



WRITE FOR NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET 

Zulueta Street No. 9 - Havana, Cuba 

PLAZA HOTEL BUILDING 



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BELLAMAR CAVES 



MATANZAS 



CUBA 




THE FOUNTAIN 



lyjOTHING in the world like these marvelous caves. They 
* ^ are the greatest attraction in Cuba. Now entirely illum- 
inated by electricity. 

Daily excursions under the direction of Mr. Foster's Office 
from Havana to Matanzas. Tickets include all expenses. In 
charge of competent conductors. Tickets on sale at Mr. 
Foster's offices in Florida and Havana. 



p. O. BOX 252 



HAVANA, CUBA 



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M 



THE MANOR, 



ALBEMARLE PAR.K. 

ASHEVILLE 9 NORTH CAROLINA 

AN EXCLUSIVE INN 




T^^HE MANOR, open the year round, is a High-Class Family Hotel catering to the best 
*■ class of tourists visiting Asheville for a long or short stay. The rooms, table and 
service are as good as at the best hotels of the South, and nothing is omitted that vsould 
add to the comfort of the guests. Amusements are ample and varied, including golf, 
tennis, bowling, pool, billiards, as well as driving and horse-back riding over the beautiful 
roads and mountain trails. The private club-house of the Albemarle Club is a unique 
feature in the amusement line. Cottages in connection with The Manor are rented to 
parties, in suites or complete. Write for booklet. 

ALBEMARLE PARK COMPANY. Asheville. N. C. 



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THE MIMOSA, - Tryon, N. C. 





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Break your trip north or south by stopping here. Ask Mr. Foster. Tourist and family hotel. Modern conveniences, 

public and private baths, steam heat. Government macadamized road, fine scenery. 
Rates, $2.50 and up per day ; $15.00 and up per week. W. H. STEARNS, Proprietor 

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The North Carolina Hot Springs 

MOUNTAIN PARK HOTEL AND BATHS 




Located on Southern Railway, thirty-five miles west of Asheville, in the heart of the " Land of the Sky." Ideal Winter 

cliiTiate. Absolute freedom from dampness, fog and smoke. Natural Hot Mineral Waters and Individual Marble Bathing 

Pools. Every Amusement. Famous Wana-Luna Golf Course. Open Jan. 10th. Ask Mr. Foster for booklets or write. 

S. B. ROBERTS, Manager, Mountain Park Hotel, Hot Springs, N. C. 



CHATTANOOGA 



-TENNESSEE- 



HOTEL PATTEN 

EUROPEAN PLAN EXCLUSIVELY 

OATES $1.30 per day and upwards. Erected at a. 
* *■ cost of one million dollars, it is unsurpassed in 
America in architectural design, superiority of materials 
used in construction, and in elegance of furnishings 
and equipment. 

Accommodates five hundred people. Every suite 
with private bath. 

Li point of centricity and accessibility, of historic 
and scenic environment, of equable and invigorating- 
climate, Chattanooga has many competitors but no 
rivals in America. 

The Tennessee is one of the most majestic rivers in 
the world, and its valley, of which Chattanooga is the 
center, one of the loveliest in America. 

The Hotel Patten is situated in the heart of the city, 
at the feet of and in full view of Lookout Mountain^ 
Orchard Knob, Missionary Ridge, Cameron Hill, and 
easily accessible to and from these and Chickamauga 
and Chattanooga National Military Park, by street car 
and by automobile and carriage. Over one hundred 
and twenty miles of free United States Government 
boulevards. 

Golf, hunting, fishing, boating; and horse-back riding- 
and automobiling over Ciovernment roads. Through drawing-room and sleeping cars to Chat- 
tanooga from all points eastof Mississippi River and many west. At Chattanooga universal stop-overs 
allowed on tourist tickets. Reduced rates the year around to Lookout Mountain (Chattanooga). 

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Break Your Journey 



Break Your Journey 



a ■ X 

I Iti Hampton Terrace | 

i AUGUSTA, GEORGIA f 

J Most Magnificently Furnished and Equipped Winter j{ 

$ Resort Hotel in the World % 

>f Ideal climate. Cuisine unexcelled. Perfedt service. Large orche^ra. 1 8-hole ^ 

J^ golf course on hotel grounds. Two new tennis courts. New croquet grounds. ^ 

J^ 22-mile automobile boulevard, Augusta to Aiken, Log cabin on Augusta-Aiken JJ 

JC Boulevard for chicken breakfa^s. Good roads all over Georgia. Miles of new 5 

JC automobile roads in Richmond County. Log Cabin Gun Club and clay bird traps. ^ 

|C Log open camp for afternoon tea (on golf course). New spring, with fine^ water, jj 

JC on 8th tee golf course. Terrace breakfa^ room with magnificent view. jj 

V v 

5? WRITE FOR RATES 5 

M -—^^^—^^^^-^—^-=^^^^^=^^—^^---^^-^^ 2 

M -5 

I The Piedmont Hotel f 

I ATLANTA, GEORGIA f 

If ... I 

J^ One of America s most magnificent and best conducted jf 

J? L_^-l- A J i_ U-_ 1 11„J *U„ "M V„-U „£ i.U„ 3 



^ hotels. Atlanta has been called the " New York of the 5 

|C South," and has many places of interest to visitors jj 

i jv 

I 300 Rooms and 150 Private Baths | 

I I 

M Every room is an outside room. Rates: $1.50 and || 

jl^ upward per day, European plan. « « « ^ 

I Stop-over, allowed HARVEY & WOOD | 

M on Return Tickets Managing Directors 2 

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WINTER HOMES IN THE SOUTH 



SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 



On Burnside Island, an Island of about 1400 acres, and only a short distance from Ferguson Avenue, the mag- 
nificent paved road built for the Automobile Races and known as one of the finest roads in the world, and made 
famous by the Grand Prize Race. The Island has a magnificent water frontage of several miles, and is surrounded 
on three sides by very wide and bold salt-water rivers, with the ocean only a few miles away. It has a fine high 
bluff and is well wooded. The soil is very rich, and the place has been noted for many years for the raising 
of fine truck and long staple cotton. There is an unlimited supply of pure artesian water. The air is salt- 
laden and full of sunshine, and the climate is ideal both in winter and summer. 

Here you can live all the year round and enjoy good health, with plenty of good hunting, fishing, bathing, 
boating and all the joys that come from living on the coast. The surrounding waters abound in fish', oysters' 
crabs and shrimp, and these are free to all. ' ' 

Remember that Burnside Island is in quick access with the City of Savannah, both by hard paved road and by 
electric car line. You can go right up to your door in ycur auto or vehicle, and can reach a car by a walk 
of 15 minutes, or in 5 minutes in a vehicle. 

SCHOOL FACILITIES 

The Board of Education of the county has a school house at Montgomery, only two miles from the Island 
where your children can have all the advantages of good schools, and obtain the rudiments of a good education. ' 

INSIDE WATER ROUTE 

The inside water route along the coast to Florida selected by the Government passes in front of Burnside 
Island. 

The river in front is a fine anchorage for yachts, and from any point along the Atlantic Coast you can reach 
Burnside Island in your yacht or motor boat. 

LOTS AND TERMS 

The lots are large, no lot being less than 100 feet front and running back 300 feet. The terms are verv easy 
a small cash payment and the balance in monthly payments (not to exceed 60 months), to suit the wishes of 
the purchaser. A liberal discount will be allowed for cash. The titles to all lots are guaranteed, and deeds will 
be made without cost to purchasers. 

Think of it! You can buy a lot for a monthly payment you will scarcely feel. It will furnish you with a 
means of saving and at the same time provide for yourself and family a place where you can retire in old age 
or should misfortune overcome you. 

You will not make a mistake if you purchase a lot, or if you prefer, we can sell you acreage sites. 

Remember, Savannah is noted as one of the most beautiful cities in the United States. Its climate is ideal 
in winter and acknowledged by many as superior to that of Florida. Savannah also has quick rail and water 
connections. The county is noted for its fine automobile roads, its fine hunting and fishing. 

For map and further particulars write or see 

THE BURNSIDE ISLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 

G. A. MERCER, Selling Agent, - - - 116 Bull Street, SAVANNAH, GA. 

I handle real estate in all of its branches. 

Farms, Factory Sites, Game Preserves, Private Islands, Tracts for sub-division. City Real Estate, Vacant 
Lots and Renting Property. 

Real Estate Loans here net the investor 5% to 7%. 

Twenty years' experience with realty values in this section. 

Invest in the South and reap the benefit that is bound to come with its development. 

References: The Mayor of the City and any Bank or Trust Company 

G. A. MERCER, Law and Real Estate, SAVANNAH, GA. 



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WIRELESS 

^ This Company is now prepared to furnish estimates and install the United 
Wireless Telegraph Co.'s equipment at reasonably low figures for Land Stations 
and Ship installations in any part of the World. The system is now being used 
by many of the prominent governments of the World and the Company operates 
a complete chain of stations alon^ the Atlantic, the Gulf and the Pacific Coasts 
and on the Great Lakes, 

And is in operation on the Steamstiips of the following Lines: 



Mallory Steamship Line 

New York and Porto Rico Line 

Ocean Steamship Co. 

(Savannah Line) 
Maine Steamship Line 
American Mail S. S. Co. 
Baltimore Steam Packet Co. 
Scandinavian- American Line 
Russian East Asiatic Co. 



Panama Railroad Co. 

Old Dominion Steamship Line 

United Fruit Company 

Clyde Line 

Quebec Steamship Line 

Red "D" Line 

Standard Oil Company 

B. &0. 

Southern Pacific 



Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 

J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. 

Hamburg-American Line (Atlas Service) 

Ward Line 

Metropolitan Line 

Peoples Line 

Hudson River Line 

C. O. Clark Towing Company 

and Insular Line 



FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND FURTHER INFORMATION. ADDRESS 

Marine Department 

THE UNITED WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY 

42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 



THE ST. JOHN 



The newest and 
most handsomely fur- 
nished hotel in the 
city. 



In the center of 
points of interest, and 
within block of resi- 
dence and shopping 
district. 



Send for booklet. 




CHARLESTON 
South Carolina 



The historic points 
of interest in and 
around Charleston 
make it a desirable 
stopover for tourists. 






rt-urr I 




Every 
bath. 



room with 



American plan, $4 
per day up. 



C. R. Focus, 



Igr. 



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When in Savannah all the Comforts of Home Await You at the 

NEW SCREVEN HOUSE 

In the Heart of the Business Centre, Corner Congress and Bull Streets 




Light, Airy Rooms. 

Telephone. 

Electric Light. 

Steam Heat. 

Thoroughly Reno- 
vated and Refitted 
throughout. 

FOREST CITY 
HOTEL CO. 

G. JAECKEL, 
Manager 



THE NEW PULASKI, Savannah, Ga. 




In the heart of the business center. Convenient to all points of interest — the shopping district, the banks 
and the shipping. Thirty-three rooms with private bath. Electric elevator, steam heat and all modern con- 
veniences. Ask Mr. Foster for booklet. STUBBS & KEEN, Proprietors. 

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Under its new management this house has been thoroughly renovated and handsomely refurnished. Guests will find it 
one of the most complete and attractive hotels in the South. Operated on European plan. 

SAVANNAH HOTEL COMPANY. Owners and Proprietors 



THE OTTARAY 



G REENVILLE, S. C. 

M. QUINN, Proprietor 




New, Modern, Up-to-Date, European, American. Cn the main line of the Southern Railway. Eighteen hours 
from New York City. Thirteen hours from Washington, D. C. Climate unsurpassed, equable, dry and bracing. 
Seldom below freezinp. Poinsett Club next adjoining Hotel. Country Club, with its beautiful grounds and Golf 
Links, accessible to visitors by card. Miles of automobile roads, traversing one of the healthiest and most 
picturesque sections of the South. 



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ATLANTA 

GEORGIA 



ROBERTSON SANITARIUM 

For Health Seekers and Tourists. Unique in All the World 




^ A delightful Southern Resort, 
beautifully situated three blocks 
from State Capitol in the city of 
the best year-round climate in 
America. Altitude 1,200 feet. 
An enjoyable, homelike place to 
rest and tone up. The Water 
Treatment (finest equipment 
South). Osteopathy, Hygienic 
Diet, Electricity, Motor Therapy, 
The Nauheim Baths (Heart 
Trouble), etc., scientifically pre- 
scribed and applied. 
Rates $22.50 to $30.00 per week 

Superb Cuisine 
For Booklet address 

W. WILBUR BLACKMAN, D.O. 
S uperintendent 





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Southern Pines Hotel 

SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. 

Under New Management 

This hotel is pleasantly situated and only two 
blocks from the railway station of the Seaboard Air 
Line. Sixteen hours from New York. Has large, 
pleasant rooms, steam heat, electric lights and call 
bells in all rooms. Capacity seventy-five. 

POOL, GOLF, TENNIS AND CROQUET 

Excellent cuisine and service by white girls from 
the North. No consumptives will be taken. 
For rates address 

J. L. POTTLE & SON 



New Central Hotel 

Florence, S. C. 

midway between new york and florida 

Stop-over Privileges on all Tickets 

First Cass Accommodations 

Artesian Water 

Mild and Delightful Climate 

GRESHAM <a IVEY CO.. Props. 

RATES ON APPLICATION 



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Jk M m l*i ¥¥j_1 Pennsylvania Ave., Sixth and C Sts, 

Metropolitan Hotel Washington, d. c. 




One of the oldest and best-known hostelries ofthe Capital City, the Metropolitan has recently passed to 
ne.v management and $35,000 has been spent in improvements, modernizing it completely. Its location on 
Pennsylvania Avenue, half way between Capitol and White House, makes it exceptionally convenient and 
attractive to the tourist as well as the man on business bent. Rates exceedingly reasonable for the high-class 
service afforded. American Plan, $2.50 to $4.00 per day; European Plan, $1.00 to $2.50 per day. 

Send for Booklet T. A. McKEE and WM. C. ROYER, Managers 



HOTEL GORDON 



T. A. McKEE 

PROPRIETOR 



Sixteenth and I Streets, 



IN THE SELECT RESIDENTIAL 
DISTRICT OF 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



'^^*^'Tw.. "T^HE HOTEL GORDON, 

containing one hundred and 
fifty rooms and fifty private baths, 
is situated on the corner of Six- 
teenth and I Sts., and is consid- 
ered the most beautifully located 
hotel in Washington. It is within 
two minutes' walk of the White 
House, Treasury, State, War and 
Navy Departments, is surrounded 
by the beautiful homes of foreign 
Ambassadors and American 
Statesmen, and is easily access- 
ible to car lines for all parts of 
the city. The building is a modern six-story structure, and among the many conveniences 
are Long Distance Telephones in every room, Steam Heat, Billiard Room and Barber 
Shop. Send for booklet. 

Special attention shown to ladies traveling alone 
European Plan, $1.50 Per Day and Up. American Plan, $3.00 Per Day and Up 




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The Shoreham 

WASHINGTON, D. C. 
The Leading Fashionable Hotel 

Metropolitan Standard of Excellence 

Absolutely Modern and High Class in all detail 

Within five minutes' walk of the White House, Treasury 
and State, War and Navy Departments 

European Plan 
JOHN T. DEVINE, Proprietor 



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First & B Streets, N. W. Near Union Station and Places of Interest 

A first-class Hotel for transient or permanent guests. All modern conveniences. 
Long-distance telephone in every room. Free baths with each room. Special 
attention given to ladies traveling alone. Home of Senators and Representatives. 

American Plan from $2.50 per day; European Plan from $1.00 per day 

F. P. ORBELLO, Manager Send for Handsome Booklet and Map 



Passing out of the Station look to the right for 

HOTEL HARRIS 

European Plan. Modern Throughout 



Massachusetts Avenue and 
North Capitol Street, N. W. 

WASHINGTON, D.C 
Rates from $1.00 to $3.50 



RESTAURANT GOOD. PRICES MODERATE 



Located one block west of Union Station, near U. S. Capitol and Library buildings, make it most desirable 
for Tourists and traveling public. Special care given Ladies and Children traveling without escort 

JOHN H. HARRIS, Propr. Tel. Lincoln 713 p. M. MALEY, Manager 









THE FREDONIA 

1321-1323 H St., N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 

/^ENTRALLY located; new; thoroughly 
equipped with every modern appliance ; a 
cuisine unexcelled. American Plan, $2.00 per 
day, $12.00 per week. European Plan, $1.00 per 
day and up. Special excursion rates. Address 

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Hotel Normandie 

15th and I STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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Cuisine 

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Modern and Up-to-Date 
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American and 
European Plan 



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THE NATIONAL HOTEL 

WASHINGTON. D. C. 




THE NATIONAL HOTEL is one of the leading hotels of the National Capital. Its 
location, mid-way between the Capitol and White House on the famous Pennsylvania 
Avenue, in front of which all street car lines pass, renders it most desirable and access- 
ible. It has just been modernized at a cost of $75,000, marble floors and stairways, electric 
elevators, telephone, electric light and heat in every room, new furnishings and equipment 
throughout. The only old time home-like hostelry in the city. 

Schedule of Rates. — American Plan, $2.50 to $4.00 per day each person; European 
Plan, rooms $1.00 to $2.50 per day. 

G. F. SCHUTT, Manager 



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Cocoa Beans of the highest grades only, 

scientfically blended, are used. 

Cleanliness and Workmanship in our Plant 

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quality of material used. 

Under such conditions it is not surprising 

-at «S^^^ COCOA 

is the acknowledged Best in the World. 

The standard by which others are judged 

Quality higher than price. 

Price within the reach of all. 




When in Washington 

Register at 
THE BUCKINGHAM 

'T'HE BUCKINGHAM, on McPHERSON 
PARK, is in the very center of the most 

attractive and fashionable part of the city, two 
blocks from the Executive 
Mansion, Treasury, State, 
War and Navy buildings, 
and within etisy access of 
the theaters and shopping 
district. The interior is 
1 planned for comfort and 
7convenience. Desirable 
rooms for transients. For 
ladies traveling alone this 

hotel affords special inducements. Cuisine and 

service are {be very best, and up-to-date. 

The regular tariff of charges is $2.50, $3.00. 
$4.00 per day, American Plan. 




A. L. BLISS, 

Owner. 



F. K. WETMORE, 

Manager. 



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The St. James Hotel 



EUROPEAN 




Cor. Penn. Ave. and 6tli St. 

WASHINGTON, D. C- 

One of Washington's best con- 
ducted hotels, made popular by 
its home comfort and good living. 

Rooms equipped with local 
and long distance telephones. 

Steam heat and electric lights. 

Rates: $1.00 per day and up; 
with private bath, $2.50; parlor, 
bedroom and bath, $3.00. ' 

Restaurant a la carte at reason- 
able prices. 

12 minutes from steamboat 
landing by two lines of cars. 

10 minutes from new Union 
Station. 

Central to theatres, public 
buildings and the shopping dis- 
trict. 

LEVI WOODBURY, - Prop. 
H. T. WHEELER, Manager 



THE HAMILTON * '^ ^ -^ ^•-* '^ " 



Washington, D. C. 




A select Family and Transient Hotel where you can feel at home. Choice location opposite 
Franklin Park. Convenient to all public buildings and points of interest. Thoroughly comfortable. 
American plan. Rates $2.50 per day and up. For further particular, Booklet, etc., address 

IRVING O. BALL. Proprietor 

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Victoria Hotel Norfolk 

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European Plan - - - $1.00 
American Plan .... 2.50 

With Private Bath, 50 Cents and $1.00 Additional 

Excellent Table D'Hote Meals, 50 Cents 
Also A La Carte Service 

New Hotel. Strictly First-Class 

All are handsome outside rooms, with steam 
heat, hot and cold water, telephone and electric 
lights. This hotel is especially adapted to the 
commercial traveler, having the 'largest sample 
rooms in Norfolk, on office floor : : : : : ; 

ALLAN A. DU BOIS, Manager 




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COLONIAL INN 

Duke of Gloucester Si., 
Williamsburg, Va. 

Distance from Old Point, 35 miles; 
Norfolk, 39 miles ; Richmond 47 miles ; 
Washington, 160 miles ; Baltimore, 172 
miles; New York, 325 miles ; Philadel- 
phia, 225 miles. The Inn is located in 
the central part of the city. Elevation 
97 feet above tide-water. Average tem- 
perature: Spring, 57; Summer, 77; 
Autumn, 60; Winter, 41. Good telegraph, 
telephone and express service. Six mails 
daily. The parlors and library are filled 
with antiques. The dining-room is large 
and a ry. Good plain Virginia cooking. 
Persons wishing to come by James River 
steamer can be met at Jamestown in suit- 
able conveyance by ordering over 'phone 
or telegraph. For information address 
J. B. G. Spencer, Owner and Prop. 




THE GUERRANT 

Phone, Madison 6640 

Cor. Third and Main Sts., Richmond, Va. 

New and Up-to-date in every respect. Steam 
heated rooms, private telephones, stationary cold 
and hot water in rooms. Located in the heart 
of the city, and convenient to the business section 
by all the car lines, and within easy reach of all 
the historical places in and around RICHMOND. 

European Plan $1 and up American Plan $2 and up 
C. S. LEFTWICH - ... - Proprietor 



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THE YEAR-ROUND RESORT OF AMERICA— OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. 



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HOTEL CHAMBERLIN 

At FORTRESS MONROE On HAMPTON ROADS 

The Largest Military Post on the Atlantic Coast The Rendezvous of the Nation's Warships 

WITH CLIMATE UNEQUALLED THE YEAR ROUND 

Golf. Tennis, Military Drills, Sailing, Naval Maneuvers Interesting Illustrated Booklets Free 

Address. GEO. F. ADAMS. Mgr., Fortress Monroe. Va.. or Ask MR. FOSTER 

The Chamberlin is conducted on the American 
Plan. This means that you know just what your 
expenses will be. 

RATES: 

Single rooms, one person, $5.00 per day, $30.00 
per week and upwards. 

Double rooms, two persons, $9.00 per day: 
$50.00 per week and upwards, 

Single rooms, with bath, one person, $6.00 per 
day, $40.00 per week and upwards. 

Double rooms, with bath, two persons, $10.00 
per dav. $65.00 per week and upw..rds. 



The Baths and Sea Pool at The Chamberlin are the finest in America. 
The pool is so perfectly ventilated and radiant with sun-light that you are really 
bathing out-of-doors. Filtered sea-water is constantly flowing in, and the air and 
water are always at an agreeable temperature. 

The Medicinal Department is complete in every detail — Nauheim bath, electric 
cabinets, massage and tonic biths of every description, A most unique feature is 
that we employ pure sea-water in many of them, thus adding to the medicinal 
value the very marked benefits derived from the salt of the sea. These are espe- 
cially recommended for Insomnia, Nervousness, Rheumatism, Gout and kindred 
disorders. Special booklet on "Baths and Bathing" may be had by addressing 
as above. 



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HOTEL WARWICK 

NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA 



Just Far 

Enough 

South 




In the 
Heart of 

Old 
Virginia 



L. B. MANVILLE, Manager 

Excellent Appointments, Service and Cuisine at Reasonable Rates 

Write for Illustrated Booklet 

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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 

With the addition of 300 bed rooms 
and superb pubHc rooms, cafe, private din- 
ing rooms, billiard halls, sample rooms, 
convention hall, etc., this far-famed Hotel 
is more magnificent, attractive and secure 
than ever before. 



European Plan Exclusively 
Rates Moderate 

The historic points of interest in and 
around Richmond make the city a desir- 
able stop-over place for tourists. 



Address, THE JEFFERSON franklin street front. 




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MONTICELLO HOTEL virgima 

Norfolk's Finest Hotel 




Strictly modern. European plan, 
moderate rates, cuisine unsurpassed. 
1 00 private baths. A feature is 
a spacious balcony overlooking an 
extensive lobby ; grand cafe on 
;■ the top floor affords a magnificent 
view of Norfolk's busy harbor. 

For reservation and other 
information, address 



MONTICELLO REALTY CO, 



Owner and Proprietor 



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THE GREAT SOUTHERN 

GULFPORT, MISS. 




Opened July 25, 1903. Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Elevator, Orchestra. Hot 
and cold water and telephone in every room, and all modern appointments 



Also Proprietors and Managers of the 
HOTEL HATTIESBURG, Hattiesburg, Miss. 



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THE ST. ANTHONY 

All Rooms Outside and 400 connect with Private Bath. 
Cafe. Grill. Rathskellar. Large Sample Rooms. 

The St. Anthony contains all o( he latest teaiuies of mod- Located in the center 
ern hotel constsucdon, equipment, furnishing and service. •'nhoii<-s'''t'' '^'^'^"',"',' 
One of (he best built, equipped and furnished hotels in America. .Motoi injj. Iluntinff,' .• 



ABSOLUTELY 430 ROOMS 
FIRE-PROOF.. European Plan. 

San Antonio, Texas 

the city, facinKlK-aiififiil TiavK Park. All rooms have lav- 
ice water, steam lical, ele.trir light, local and long distance 
•eraiidas; l.i'aiitifnl I'altii Court. <;..lf, I'olo, Itidinf;, Driving, 
F. M. SWEARINCEN & SON, Managina Director!. 



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v€ ^ MEXICO'S LEADING HOTEL ^ ^^ 




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CITY 



(American Management) 



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THE MACATEE 




HOUSTON, TEX. 



HOUSTON'S MOST MODERN 
AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL 

1 20 "Rooms 70 tsfith 'Bath 
Centrally Located 

Only one block from Grand Central 
Depot. Accessible to all parts of city 
by electric street cars. All rooms 
modern in every respect. Running hot 
and cold water, gas and electric lights, 
steam heat, local and long distance 
telephone in each room. All outside 
rooms, well lighted and ventilated. 

We cater specially to the tourist and 
special attention given to tourist parties. 



Houston has the Ideal Climate the year round. 



If a trip to Texas is contemplated 
European Plan Cafe in Connection write us for information. 

THE MACATEE, 



Rates, $1.00 to $1.50 single 
Bath, $2.00 to $5.00 

OUR AIM IS TO PLEASE OUR GUESTS 



Geo. P. 



Macatee, 
Manager. 



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TWO NEW HOTELS OF PECULIAR EXCELLENCE IN 
TWO CHARMING OLD SOUTHERN HISTORIC CITIES 



Mobile, Alabama 


Pensacola, Florida 


TKe Cawthon 


The San Carlos 


Accommodates 400 


Accomimodates 400 


Fine Golf Links 


Fine Golf Links 


Yachting, Hunting, Fishing 


Yachting, Hunting, Fishing 


Shell Roads Superb Climate 


Shell Roads Superb Climate 


European Plan $1.00 Per Day Up 


European Plan $1.00 Per Day Up 


Adaress for Book 


Address for Booklet 


H. C. HERVEY, Mgr. 


GEO. H. HERVEY, Mgr. 



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THE NEW 

BATTLE HOUSE 

A Palatial Southern Home. Mobile, Ala. 

Only an hour "From The Battle House to the Oyster Beds " by Auto or Train 
ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF COST ONE MILLION 

1V[0 world-famous hostelry provides greater living facilities than the new^ Battle 
House. Each human want and every known luxury is supplied within its 
portals. Exquisitely appointed dining rooms, resting rooms and reception halls — 
fairy-like gardens and inner courts — rooms and suites above stairs the embodiment of 
restful comfort and gratifying good taste. All are features of a wonderful hospitality, 
which is enhanced by such service as only the South can command. ^ Among the 
out-door attractions are a splendid golf course, superb roads for automobiling, rare 
' hunting, fishing, etc. ^ Rates on request. ^ Write for beautifully illustrated booklet 

CHARLES B. HERVEY. Pres., Battle House. Inc. 



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NEW ORLEANS 



THE GATEWAY OF 
THE MISSISSIPPI 



The Great City of the Great South. The Largest 
Cotton, Rice, and Sugar Market in the World 

THE MOST POPULAR WINTER RESORT IN AMERICA 

Golf Links. Hunting and Fishing. Comfort. Health 
Pleasure. Eleven Theaters. French Opera. ^ 

THE NEW 

St. Charles 
Hotel 

Modern Fireproof First-Class 

Accommodating 1,000 Guests. Turkish, 
Russian, Roman and Plain Baths. 
Luxurious Sun Baths and Palm 
Garden. American and European Plan. 
European Plan, $1.50 per day and up; 
American Plan, $3.50 per day and up. 

ANDREW R. BLAKELY & CO., Ltd. 

Proprietors 




THE FAMOUS NATURAL BRIDGE 

ONCE OWNED BY Combines in Rare Degree— Scenery, History, Comfort, Health 

«IL^D^«.A''furN^-?IR^ The Hotel and Cottages, m the center of a fifteen hundred acre Mountain 
WHERE WASHINGTON Park, are modern in every equipment, and comfortable beyond compare 
CARVED HIS NAME 



THE BRIDGE— Old as the 

hills, yet ever new. To the 
newcomer, "a miracle"; to 
the returning guest. a friend. 





THE TABLE-Select and 
dainty, yet generous, with 
just an alluring hint of 
"Old Virginia Cooking" 
to tempt the appetite. 



The Natural Bridge invites you. We welcome you any time in the jear. 

Send for interesting Literature, Rates and Scenic Postals. 

NATURAL BRIDGE HOTEL, Natural Bridge, Va. 

C. H. PAXTON. Manager. 
Natural Bridge Station on Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western Rys. 



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All Outside Rooms. 
All Oriental Rugs. 



The only New York Hotel Window-Screened Throughout 

Hotel Cumberland 

NEW YORK 

S. W. Corner of Broadway at 54th Street 

Near 50th St. Subway Station and 53d St. Elevated. 
Broadway" Cars from Grand Central Station pass 
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MOST ATTRACTIVE HOTEL IN 
NEW YORK 

New, modern and absolutely fireproof. 

Ideal location. Near theatres, shops and Central 

Park. 

Transient rates, $2.50 with bath, and up. 

Special rates for permanent guests. 

Ten Minutes' Walk to Twenty Theatres. 

SEND FOR BOOKLET. 



H. P. STIMSON, Formerly with Hotel Imperial 
R. J. BINGHAM, Formerly with Hotel Woodward 




RAND HOTEL 

New York City 
A Famous Home, with a 

NEW ANNEX 

On Broadway, at 31st St., NEAR PENN. R. R. TERMINAL 

(In Operation, February First) 

A house made famous through its splendid service and personal 
attention to patrons — the Grand counts its friends by the thousands. 
Army and Navy people stop here, as do all experienced travelers. 
For more excellent living facilities, quiet elegance and sensible 
prices are hardly obtainable elsewhere. 

As for tranportation facilities, New York's subways, elevated 
and surface cars are all practically at the door. Theaters and 
shopping districts also immediately at hand. 

Splendid Moorish dining rooms are but one of the many 
famous features of the New Annex. 

ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF 
RATES.-$1.50 PER DAY. UPWARDS 
GEORGE F. HURLBERT - - President and General Manager 

Also Sherman House and New Annex, Jamestowix, N. Y. 

Guide to New York (with Maps) and Special Rate Card — sent upon request 



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HOTEL ST. DENIS 

Broadway and 11th St., New York 




ROOMS $1.00 and up. 
European plan. Table 
d'hote breakfast, 50c. 

Most convenient to all 
railroads, ferries and S. S. 
piers. One block from 
John Wanamaker's and 
walking distance to the 
leading department stores 
and theaters. 



WILLIAM TAYLOR & SON, 

WALTER CHANDLER, Jr., Manager 



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BRIARCLIFF MANOR 

Is New York City's most- accessible suburban resort, and within thirty miles 
from town includes the varied beauty and historic interest of the Westchester 
Hills and the Hudson River. 

BRIARCLIFF LODGE 

With May first as its early season opening date, is a perfectly appointed and luxurious 
Hotel, intelligently catering to refined taste. Superbly located, of fire-proof con- 
struction, with an altitude of more than five hundred feet above the Hudson, 
and with Golf Links and Club House, large model Garage, well equipped Stables 
and inviting Grounds. 

The second large fire-proof extension now completes the list of house attrac- 
tions and permits a larger entertainment. The Automobile fraternity has been fully 
provided for, and several new and beautiful rooms are attractive features. Apart- 
ments under lease will be decorated and furnished to the personal tastes of applicants. 

Reached from any direction over well kept stone roads, or by Hudson River 
Division New York Central Railroad to Scarborough Station, where Lodge auto- 
mobile meets all trains by appointment. Ten-minute run to hotel. Further in- 
formation on application to 

DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager, - Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. 

Represented at Briarcliff New York Store, 5' j East 46th St., New York City. Phone 3278 38th. 



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AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN 
NEW ADDITION 13 COMPLETED 

" A Hotel in the Heart of Things " 

Broadway and Thirty-third St. 

NEW YORK 

P. L. PINKERTON. Mgr. 

Located precisely where the visitor wishes to stop, 
whether his mission be one of pleasure or business. 
Pre-eminent among Neiv York hotels for the excel- 
lence of its cuisine, service and appointments. The 
highest standard of accommodaticn ct moderate 
rates. 

CHAS. LEIGH TAYLOR, Pres. 
WALTER S. GILSON, Vice-Pres. 

Proprietors 

Also Proprietors St. Denis Hotel 



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ABOUT TRAVEL 

THOSE intending to travel will find it to their interest to communicate with Raymond & 
Whitcomb Co. , whose patrons include the better class of the American traveling public. 
This firm maintains, at large expense, a bureau for supplying the traveling public with 
information about resorts, their hotels and attractions, the best routes for reaching them, the 
cost of railway and steamship tickets to all parts of the world, and other needful information. 
Detailed itineraries of contemplated trips will be prepared on request ; these will give the train 
service, the names of hotels, places where the time can be spent to the best advantage, etc.; 
in brief, such information as is needed by every traveler. 

Special vestibuled trains to JVlexico, California and the Pacific Coast, equipped with 
dining, library, observation and sleeping cars with private rooms, are provided exclusively by 
this firm, and are intended for the convenience and comfort of the most fastidious. The time 
schedules are arranged to include the interesting scenery by dayliglit. 

Tours to Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Porto Rico, Europe, JaLpan, 
Around the World, etc. Railroad and Stea.mship Tickets. Priva.te 
Ca^rs, Foreign Money, Letters of Credit, Travelers' Cheques. ? ^ 

RAYMOND <a WHITCOMB COMPANY 

(Established 1879.) 

TOURS AND TICKETS EVERYWHERE 



BOSTON: 
PHILADELPHIA: 



NEW YORK: 225 Fifth Avenue 
306 Washington Street PITTSBURG 
1005 Chestnut Street CHICAGO : 



522 Smithfield Street 
202 So. Clark Street 



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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Of;ices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington Philadelphia, Ns'v York, B.'-ctton Woods, '^ ) ijes are asked or ever accepted. 



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PAUL SMITH'S 

June to October • 

HOTEL - CASINO - COTTAGE 
AND CAMP LIFE 

St. Regis and Osgood Chain of Lakes 

All outdoor sports. Through Pullman, New York to 
hotel without change via New York Central Lines and 
Paul Smith's Electric Railroad. Address 

PAUL SMITH'S HOTEL COMPANY 

Paul Smith's, New York 



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EUROPEAN PLAN 



C A. GLEASON 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 



THE 



Jackson Health Resort 



DANSVILLE, Livingston County, 



NEW YORK 




Fifty Years of Experience, during which the Jacksons and their 

associates have built up a reputation and materially, a magnificent Health 
Institution second to none, counts for much when considering what one should 
do, and where one should go to secure health. 

The wealth of experience in the care and treatment of invalids, con- 
tinuous for more than fifty years, the environment of beautiful scenery, unusually 
good climatic conditions, especially valuable spring water, a great New 
Fireproof Main Building, equipped with every advantage for administering 
Modern Therapeutics, complete a situation and conditions most desirable 
for invalids. 

A world-wide reputation held for fifty years means much when con- 
sidering the value of a method or a place. 

Send your name and a request for general and special literature and 
illustrations and these will be immediately forwarded. 

Make yourself familiar with the great health movement being carried on at this 

Famous Northern Health Resort 

On Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Ry., from N, Y. to Buffalo without change 



SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE, ADDRESSING 



J. ARTHUR JACKSON, M. D., 



Manager 



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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacltsonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Bretton ^3('oods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 

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CREME ELETO 

AN 

EXQUISITE 

TOILET CREAM AND SKIN FOOD 

Composed of absolutely pure ingredients and contains 
no harmful preservatives. Will not change or become 
rancid. Keeps the Skin soft and healthful, prevents 
wrinkles and removes blackheads and other impurities 
Tubes, 25c Jars, 50c 

ELETO VIOLET TALCUM 

A 

TOILET NECESSITY 

OF SUPERIOR QUALITY 

Very dry, smooth, and daintily perfumed. Soothes 

and freshens the skin wonderfully, removes all odor 

of perspiration ' T)^ T)« ^ T>« 

Enameled Metal Boxes, 25c 

ELETO CONCENTRES 

THE 

MOST CONCENTRATED FORM 

OF PERFUME 

Impart a perfect and lasting fragrance intensely per- 
vading in effect. The smallest possible quantity is suf- 
ficient to produce the entrancing illusion of freshly cut 
flowers. Three odors — Sure, Vale and Violette 
— in full cut glass bottles with French elongated stop- 
pers neatly encased in wooden containers. $1.50 



ELETO TOILET REQUISITES 

Sent upon receipt of price if not obtainable at your 
Drug or Department Store 

ELETO COMPANY 

1 1 West 36th Street NEW YORK 

DEP'T F 

Send for list of Preparations and Booklet 
Good Sense in the Care of the Face " 




ASK MR. FOSTER ABOUT ELETO TOILET REQUISITES 

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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Bretton Woods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 

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Clicquot (cuci^) Club Ginger Ale 

For thirsty folk in hot weather there is no beverage so satis- 
fying, refreshing and cooling as Ginger Ale. Clicquot Club Ginger 
Ale is the one that can be depended upon as being perfectly pure 
and absolutely free of all preservatives. A healthful, delicious drink. 
Spicy and snappy in flavor and not too sweet. With just enough 
sparkle to be beneficial and stimulating to the appetite. 

IT IS NON-ASTRINGENT AND KEEPS IN ANY CLIMATE 

We also make 
Birch Beer Sarsaparilla 



Root Beer 



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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jacltsonville, St. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Brstton Woods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 



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O other Fountain Pen, at ANY price, 
has ALL the 12 features of the 



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FOUNTAIN PEN 

Few have even ONE of them 



1 . Fills and cleans itself in 5 seconds. 

2. Cannot loak, even when carried point downward. 

3. Self-regulating ink flow. Writes just as fast or 

slow as you wish. 

4. Instantaneous ink flow. Writes zX the FIRST 

stroke. 

5. Continuous ink flow. Never MISSES a stroke. 

6. Exactly-even ink flow. Never blots, splatters 

nor floods. 

7. 14K Gold Iridium-tipped points. Never catch 

or scratch and last for years. 



8. Double ink feed — above as well as below the 

nib. ( The secret of Features 3, 4 and 5.) 

9. Barrel and cap made of finest quality polished 

black Vulcanite. 

10. No dropper, clip or special ink necessary. 

11. A point, a size and a price for every Hand, 
every Purpose and every Pocketbock. 

12. Sold on an Unconditional Guarantee of "Satis- 

faction, NEW PEN, or MONEY BACK." 



Yet the Onoto COSTS YOU NO MORE than the old-fashioned finger, 
besmearing leaky Dropper-Fillers or the new-fangled impractical Rubber- 
Sack and Pump-filling kinds! 

Get pen-wise and get your Money's Worth. 



All we ask is that j-ou see and try an 
ONOTO. 

And this is all we need to ask. 

Because Seeing means Trying, Trying 
means Buying, and Buying means Guaranteed 
Satisfaction. 



Sold everywhere by leading Stationery, 
Department and Drug Stores. Four Sizes — 
$2.50, $3, $4 and $5. 15 different style 
points in each size. If no nearby local dealer 
is willing to supply you, write for Catalog 
22, and the name of the nearest ONOTO 
dealer — or order direct. 



ONOTO PEN COMPANY 

261 EROADWAY - - NEW YORK 



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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jack-,onviIIe, St. Augustine, Daytom, Palm Beach, Miami, 
Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, N;w York, Bretton Woods, No fees are asited or ever accepted. 



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For all Seasons 
and all Climates 



No matter where the location —West, North, East or South— CREX is 
the one floor covering which is especially adapted to fill every requirement in up-to-date house furnishing. 

CREX is made of the tough, long grass of our Western Prairies, artistically woven with strong cotton 
twine, thus insuring durability and permanent attractiveness under the severest service. 

As an all year round floor covering, CREX is all one could ask, while being far superior to any- 
thing else for bungalows, cottages, porches and resort hotels. 

r^o|»l5r»f-c Solid Colors — Plain and Riicy« ^'^ sizes, in a large variety of 

" ^ striped effects— in all widths *»-"5® exclusive designs and beautiful colors 

CAUTION — Avoid imitations. The genuine bears the CRE^ label 

Sold by all Up-to-Date Carpet and Department Stores. Send for free Booklet No. 36, beautifully illustrated, in colors 

CREX CARPET COMPANY, 377 Broadway, New York 



BALLISTITE 



The Only Perfect Dense Smokeless 
Shotgun Po\vder Made 

Winner of the "Grand American Handicap" 1909 

The highest development of the modern Smokeless Powder Is odorless, non- 
fouling, leaves no residue, never pits or corrodes the barrel, unaffected by climatic or 
atmospheric condition. Breech and barrel pressures lower than Black Powder, 
lightest recoil, highest velocities, absolutely waterproof. 

The Ideal Powder for Game Shooting, Especially 
On the Coast or in Very Damp Climate 



J. H. LAU & CO., Agents, TS Chambers St., New York 



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GHOGOLAT 




/^IMPORTED FROIVI\ 
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IVyilLKA-SUCHARD, is the purest, richest and most 
enticing full cream Chocolate. 



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IMA-SUCHARD, a perfectly new blend of best beans — 
a delightful eating Chocolate — is of velvety smoothness. 



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OISETTINE-SUCHARD. the Vima base prepared with 
finely ground hazelnuts, is the (ne plus ultra) in eating 
Chocolate. 



'OCOA-SUCHARD, in powder form, should be in every 
home, being the most dainty nutrient for the convalescent, 
for the child and for the adult. 



HORACE L. DAY COMPANY 

IMPORTERS 
4-6 White Street - - - New York 



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jOJN 1 OJN CORSETS are universally recognized as the ultra-fashionable high-grade corsets of the 
present day. All the better grades are boned with WALOHN, the wonderful, indestructible boning that 
will not break, warp or rust. PRICE, 3 TO 20 



^OYAL WORCESTER corsets are absolutely the best medium-priced corsets the 
world has ever known. They are the accepted standard of authentic style, perfect fit and workmanship, 
and are boned with best quality non-rustable wire. PRICE, *1 TO ^3 



ADJUSTO REDUCING CORSETS are patented. They are equipped with the famous "Reduc- 

Iing Bands," which can be instantly adjusted. Double boned throughout with wide, flat, double bones. 
Suitable for both medium and full figures. PRICE, *3 AND *5 



Sold By LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE 



SESD FOR THE 
ROYAL BLUE BOOK 



ROYAL WORCESTER CORSET CO. 

FACTORY AND MAIN OFFICK. WORCESTER, MASS. 



BRANCH OFFICES 
NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO 



LONDON ENG. 



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Havana, Camaguey, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Bretton Woods. No fees are asked or ever accepted. 

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SWEEP AND DUST 
NO MORE 




A FREE DEMONSTRATION 

of the Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner in your own home will 
convince you that it will do the work ten times quicker, 
ten times easier, and ten times better. 

Rugs and carpets are cleaned on the floor, and the 
furniture is not disturbed. 

Think what it will mean to you — day after day — year 
after year — to have your entire home spotlessly clean and sweet, purged of the disease 
germs that swarm in the dust — germs of consumption, pneumonia and ciphtheria. Not 
just twice a year, but every day — all the time. 

And it is so easl; to clean house with the Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner. The 
drudgery and confusion are all gone. There is not enough labor left to tire a child. 

And I am willing to prove all this to you at my own expense. I will send you 
a cleaner for a free demonstration m your own home, no matter where you live. 
You may use it and test it severely. It will speak for itself. 

I am not afraid to send the Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner a thousand miles away 
and let it tell its own story. 

I am willing to do even more. I will rent you a Duntley Pneumatic Cleaner 
by the month — for as many months as you desire —and when you have decided to buy 
it outright, all rentals you may have paid will be deducted from the purchase price. 

I gladly make this offer, because I k.noW the machine is reliable and durable, 
and that the people who use it on the Rental-Investment 
basis will wish to own it, for the longer they use it the 
more they will like it. 

Five sizes of electrical Cleaners: $125, $115, 
$95, $65, $49.50. Cost Id operate less than 3 
cents an hour. Hand-power machine, $35.00. 

Fill out the coupon below, and let me send you our 
booklet on scientific house-cleaning. 




J, W. DUNTLEY, President 
424 Harvester Building - - - - Chicago 



Cut on thij line and mail coupon at once 




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advertised, at the Standard Guide Information Offices: Jackoonville, ft. Augustine, Daytona, Palm Beach, Miami, 
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HOTEL SEMINOLE 

Corner Hogan and Forsyth Streets 

JACKSONVILLE - - - FLORIDA 



Absolutely Fire-proof European Exclusively 

Convenient and Commoclious Sample Rooms 

Opened January 1st, 1910 




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250 Rooms :: :: :: :: :: :: 175 Baths 

Rates: $1.50 and upwards per day 
Three Cafes Fine Music 

FLORIDA HOTEL CO. - - - - Proprietors 

ROBT. R. MEYER, Prest. H. B. MABSON, Sec'y and Treas. 

WM. H. MARSHALL, Manager. 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 

■For Real Estate and Insurance 

Also Furnished Houses 



GO TO 



EUGENE L. BARNES 

JEFFERSON THEATRE BUILDING 

Cordova and Cathedral Streets St. Augustine, Fla. 
PHONE 75 



For Colony Lands, City Real Estate, Write 

John T. Hammond 

NEW SMYRNA FLORIDA 

The Harlan-in-the-Pines - "^^^l^^^T 

In the high pine forests of Florida, good hunting and fishing near. Good 
beds and good table, large grounds, all for the comfort and enjoyment of 
guests of The Harlan. A first-class family hotel under new management 

GEO. W. WEEKS Proprietor 



WHEN IN MIAMI 

and you need some cash on your letter of Credit, 
Exchange, Certified or Personal Check, we want 
you to call on us. 

If you desire to deposit your money, we offer you 
the highest degree of security. 

Your valuables will have perfect protection if left 
in our storage vault. 

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

Capital Stock $100,000.00 

MIAMI FLORIDA 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 



BOCA GRANDE - - Florida 

The Southern Terminus of the 

Charlotte Harbor ®. Northern Railway 

" Boca Grande Route " 

Located on picturesque Gasparilla Island on the west coast of Florida, Boca Grande 
has over seven miles of beautiful sand and shell beach, washed by the Gulf of Mexico 
on the west, with the beautiful Charlotte Harbor confining its shores on the east. There 
is surf and still-water bathing all the year round on safe beaches, and the yachting and 
fishing are unsurpassed. In fact Boca Grande Pass is famed the world over for its 
Tarpon Fishing. On the mainland immediately adjacent there are extensive forests 
containing all kinds of large and small game. 

The HOTEL BOCA GRANDE, open all the 
year round, is an ideal resort for rest and recreation. 
USEPPA INN is open from January I 5 to May 1 . 
Write, or Ask Mr. Foster, for information and booklet of 

The Charlotte Harbor ®, Boca Grande Railway 

L. M. FOUTS, 2d Vice-Pres. and Gen. Manager, 5 Nassau St., New York and Boca Grande, Fla. 
E. C. HOSKINS, Gen. Pass. Agent. A. N. SMALLEY, Land Commissioner, Boca Grande, Fla. 



THE PIONEER BANK 

(Formerly the Dade County State Bank) 

I WEST PALM BEACH - - - - FLORIDA 



Capital $40,000.00 

Surplus and Undivided Profits - - $30,000.00 

The Oldest Bank in South Florida. Commercial and Savings Departments 
under Strict State Supervision. Unsurpassed facilities for handling the busi- 
ness of Tourists and Homeseekers. Depository of the City of West Palm 
Beach, County of Palm Beach and State of Florida. Correspondence 
solicited and all inquiries cheerfully answered. 



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GEO. W. POTTER, President B. A. MAXFIELD, Cashier 

C. C. CHILLINGWORTH, Vice-Pres. HARRY BOTTS, Ass't Cashier 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 

1880 1910 

BUCKEYE 
NURSERIES 

M. E. GILLETT, Proprietor 
TAMPA, FLORIDA 

We have the oldest exclusively Citrus Nursery 
in the State. We can give you the benefit of 
thirty years of practical experience which covers 
Florida, California, Cuba, Jamaica, and the Isle 
of Pines. We do not pretend to compete with 
amateurs or back-door-yard stock. We have 
one of the largest Citrus Nurseries in the world, 
and are in a position to fill orders for any 
quantity of trees. 

We guarantee to deliver in good order, and 
further agree to make good at once, at our 
expense, anything arriving in any other condi- 
tion. We believe we are offering as good stock 
as can be grown with roots which trees grown 
on the rich lands of Cuba do not have. Give us 
your orders and we will convince you that we 
have stated facts. 

SEND FOR CATALOG 

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TOURIST RESORTS. 



HOTEL GREEN 



Pasadena 



California 



DECEMBER TO MAY 




HOTEL, GREEN, situated in the wealthy and beautiful city of Pasadena, 
is one of the most commodious and comfortable hotel structures in the 
world. It is the most popular resort hotel in California; in fact, a 
city in itself, covering nearly two blocks of ground space and surrounded by 
parks; and yet within easy access to the fashionable shopping district. The 
clientele of the hotel is unsurpassed. It affords to the traveler an ideal home in 
which to pass the winter months. 

Pasadena, situated among the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains, has 
a perfect climate. There is every opportunity for outdoor amusements, for here 
one can live out of doors the year round. The surrounding country is full of 
good roads for the motor, horseback riding and driving. The Annandale 
Club close at hand offers fine golf and tennis. Pasadena is only eight miles 
from Los Angeles, the metropolis of Southern California, and within easy reach 
of all the principal mountain and sea resorts. 

— ADDRESS ^=:= 



D. B. PLUMER 



Manager 



Manager also of Briarcliff Lodge and Profile House 



D. P. SIMPSON 



Assistant Manager 



Hotel Green, Pasadena, Cal. 



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WHY YOU SHOULD EAT 

EDUCATOR 
CRACKER S 

"Recau^e they are the most Delicious crackers made. 

'Recause all of Nature's Nourishment is retained in the milling 
of Educator cereals. 

'Recatl'Se the variety is large enough to cover all demands where 
crackers are used. 

"Recati^e they are packed in tin and thrice wrapped, which en- 
sures freshness and crispness. 

Different Kinds of Educators: 

Entire Wheat Water Wafer Entire Wheat Cracker Wheat Germ Baby (Teething Ring) 

Ginger Cookie Golden Maize Toasterette Chocolate Oatmeal 

Fruited Graham Oyster Barley Butter Bran Cookie Rye 



Johnson Educator Food Company 

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TOURIST RESORTS. 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. 

The Queen of Summer Resorts 

PEERLESS IN ALL THINGS THAT MAKE FOR HEALTH AND PLEASURE 

Mineral springs of the most infinite variety, alkaline, diuretic, saline and cathartic 
No other place has such large and attractive hotels. Free halls and reduced 
rates of entertainment are offered to conventions of all sizes, from the largest 
to the smallest. 

Saratoga Springs abounds with shade trees. One may travel the whole world 
over, and nowhere else find such avenues lined with stately elms and lordly maples. 
Within its borders is the beautiful Saratoga Lake, and it is in close proximity 
to Lake George, Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains 
One of the finest Race Tracks, under the supervision of the New York Jockey Club 
The Dry, pine-laden air wafted from these fir clad mountains is a natural health- 
giving tonic. No malaria nor mosquitos here to poison any one. 

Folders and information on application to 

THE PUBLICITY COMMISSION 

Or at Mr. Foster's Offices Saratoga Springs, N. Y. 






IN FLORIDA AND ELSEWHERE 

HOTEL RED BOOK 

Is Used Daily by Many Travelers. It is a Standard Directory 

of Hotels 

MOST HOTEL MEN KEEP IT ASK FOR IT 

MANY HOTEL MEN ADVERTISE IN IT PRICE $3 EXPRESS PAID 

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Scribner's Magazine 

offers, each month, the most complete Directory of 

Travel, Resorts and Tours. 

If you want a suggestion of where to go and how 
to go there, at any time, consult the advertising 
pages of the current number of Scribner's. 

Advertisers know that Scribner's has a circulation, 
without waste, to people who have the desire and 
the means to travel. Scribner's circulation has 
doubled in the past four months, due largely to 
Mr, Roosevelt's story of his African Hunt, which 
is to run through 1910. 

Advertisers: Write for Scribner's Booklet on Travel, Resort 
and Tour Advertising including 4 beautiful color prints of 
high power locomotives in action. Address, Advertising 
Dept., Scribner's Magazine, 153 Fifth Avenue, New York. 




,22 CALIBER AUTOMATIC RIFLE 

For camping, canoeing, automobiling, or any outing, this 
novel little repeater affords more pleasure than any other 
gun. Being reloaded by recoil, it is only necessary to 
pull the trigger for each shot. It shoots clean and 
inexpensive cartridges, is easy to load and light to carry. 

MAKES AN OUTING OUTFIT COMPLETE 



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Winchester Guns and Winchester Ammunition — the Red\N 
Brand — are Made for Each Other and Sold Everywhere. 



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WfJVCH ESTER 



TAKE-DOWN REPEATING SHOTGUNS 




THE REPEATER THAT'S USED BY OVER 450,000 SPORTS- 
MEN AND ENDORSED BY THE U. S. ORDNANCE BOARD. 

DHE cardinal points in a repeating shotgun are strength^ safety^ ease 
and certainty of action^ good shooting and good wearing qualities. 
Winchester Repeating Shotguns possess every one of them and many- 
others besides. That's why they are used by over 450,000 sportsmen 
and officially endorsed by the U. S. Ordnance Board as follows: 

"The result of the severe tests to which the gun was 
subjected showed that every part was strong and service- 
able. The Board finds that the gun possesses the advantages 
claimed by the manufacturers.'" 

"The gun can be loaded, unloaded, or fired with 
safety and sufficient rapidity. It is accurate, gives good 
penetration * '''- * * and has little recoil. The working 
parts are few in number, and are simple, strong, and well 
made; and the board is of the opinion that the arm is 
especially well adapted to the purpose for which it is in- 
tended. The Board has, therefore, uo suggestions nor 
recommendations to suggest in the way of improving 
the gun * '■' * * " 

When the Experts comprising the U, S. Ordnance Board cannot suggest any 
improvement in a iun it means that it is as near perfect as a iun can be made. 

STICK TO A WINCHESTER AND YOU WON'T GET STUCK 

Winchester Guns and Winchester Ammunition — the Red W 
Brand — are made for each other and sold everywhere. 




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The Florida Review 

Is the only publication of its character in 

FLORIDA 

A clean, progressive magazine for those interested in 

The Land of Opportunities 

THE FLORIDA REVIEW has patrons throughout the 
United States and Europe. 

Subscription price $1.50 per year. Advertising rates upon 
application. Send for sample copy or Ask Mr. Foster. 



THE FLORIDA REVIEW 



JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 



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The Tourist Magazine 

An illustrated monthly magazine devoted to the interests of tourists over the Washington-Sunset Route to 

C AL IFOHJ^IA 

The only magazine of its kind reaching the tourist direct. If you have anything of interest to the 
traveling public, you will find T^he Tourt-tt Maj^azifie a forceful medium. 

Circulation guaranteed. Rate $15.00 per page. Further particulars by addressing 



Sample copy mailed on request 



THE TOVRIST MAGA^IJSfE 

JVetif E-Vans 'Building Washington, 2>. C. 



All the Comforts of a Modern Home, With 
the Conveniences of Excellent Hotel Service 

THE OAKS 




DAYTONA 



FLORIDA 



RIDGEWOOD AVENUE 

Capacity. Seventy-five. Rates: $2.50 to $3.00 per day, 

$10.00 to $18.00 per week. Open November to May 

Porter meets trains and boats 

EDWARD M. SAMMIS, Proprietor 



SUMMER: TUTHILL POINT HOUSE, East Moriches. 
Long Island, N. Y. 



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Having behind them 
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influence of the 
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these cheques are the emin- 
ently appropriate kind for Ameri- 
cans to carry abroad. 

^ Identify the holder at all points of his 
journey and make it easy for him to obtain 
funds in any part of the world. 

^ Accepted .it face value in payment of railroad and 
Seamship ticl'?ls, hotel charges and other travel expenses. 

^ Safer than money and twice as convenient. 
A booklet, fully explaining the system, will be mailed free upon request. 



BUY THEM FROM YOUR OWN BANKER 

OR IF MORE CONVENIENT APPLY TO 
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY 7 WALL ST., NEW YORK CITY 




Be Young — Be Beautiful 

Dr. Dys' interesting booklet 

"Plus que Belle" 

tells how to remain young and beautiful always. 
Sent free on request. 

V. DARSY, 4 West 40th St., New York 

COCOA 
HOUSE 





COCOA 



FLORIDA 



Delightful situation facing 
Indian River. Newly en- 
larged. Rooms with bath. 
Good home table. Rates: 
$2.50 and $3.00 per day; 
$12.00 per week and up. 

E E. CRIMES, - Prop. 



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99 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



MARCH VILLA, - Miami, Florida 




ON Ninth Street, within a refined neighborhood, overlooking Biscayne Bay. The water view is 
particularly attractive. The cuisine is unexcelled in the city. Distilled water, private bath, 
electric lights, hot and cold water and every convenience. White domestic service exclusively.. 
Everything convenient, homelike, and made as comfortable and pleasant as a private home. The 
table is the best the market affords, fresh vegetables and meats always used and of the best quality. 
Rates on application. 

MRS. M. H. MARCH, Proprietress 

THE GREEN TREE INN, Miama, Florida 




O' 



iN Avenue B, near Biscayne Bay, within a refined neighborhood. Convenient to Railway 
Depot, Postoffice and business district of the city. Green Tree Inn is an ideal winter home 
for the tourist. Large, airy bed-rooms, baths, bell service, electric lights, a spacious lobby and 
parlor large well lighted dining room and long, wide verandas fronting east and south. White 
domes'tic service the best obtainable. Best of meats, vegetables and strawberries from our own farm. 

MRS. M. H. MARCH, Proprietress 

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100 



TOURIST RESORTS.^ 




Florence Villa 

^ Florida's renowned plantation ho'.el in the 
famous lake country of Polk County. 
^ A resort of unsurpassed beauty and health- 
fulness, operating its own dairy and vege- 
table farm aside from 500 acres citrus fruits. 
EJccellent hunting and fishing, horseback 
viJing, tennis, billiards, etc. Terms are 
moderate. Write for booklet, or ask 
Mr. Foster. 

H. GUY NICKERSON 

Florence Villa Station - FLORIDA 




THE ALTAMONTE 

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLA. 



In the heart of the orange section. Highest 
elevation in Florida. Air dry, climate most 
equable. Every comfort. Fishing, boating, 
riding, driving, rowing. Rates $3.00 per day 
and up ; $.14.00 per week and up. Address, 

MANAGER 

ALTAMONTE HOTEL CO. 




The Manavista Hotel 

BRADENTOWN, FLORIDA 

W. M. JENKINS, Prop. 



The Most Modern Fireproof Hotel on the 
West Coast, fifty miles south of Tampa 
by boat or rail. Best location for fishing 
and hunting in the state. 

SAME MANAGEMENT AS 

The CHffton, Patchogue, Long Island 



SARASOTA 
FLORIDA 



THE BELLE HAVEN 

Modern. First-clsss. Sanitary conditions perfect. Ideal climatic conditions. Artesian 
water. Surf and still water bathing. Fishing and shooting. Golf, tennis, boating, croquet. 
Livery stables. Experienced guides and trained dogs. Rates, $3.00. Special rates by 
week or month. FRANKLIN A. WHIPPLE, Lessee. 



The Hollenbeck, 

New Hotel. 
Cor. Second St. and First Ave. North 



S. D. HOLLENBECK, Proprietor 

Modern Improvements. 

St. Petersburg, Florida 



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Id 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



NEW ROCKLEDGE 

HOTEL AND COTTAGES 

ROCKLEDGE FLORIDA 




"MEW ROCKLEDGE HOTEL is situated in the midst of a full bearing 
* ^ orange grove and fronting on the Indian River. Many improvements have 
been made about the Hotel, during the past summer, thus insuring former patrons 
and new^ guests greater comfort than ever before. The hotel affords for the ex- 
clusive entertainment of its guests launches and boats for fishing. No better 
fishing in the State. Launch and bowling free to our guests. :: :: :• 

Rooms en suite with private bath. Steam heat in every room. 

Rates : $3.00 Per Day and Up. Special Weekly. 

^ First-class orchestra will give two concerts daily — morning and evening — and 
frequent opportunities will be given for dancing. The hotel 'bus, porters and 
bellboys meet all trains. :: :: :: :: :: :: :: 

Same management, HOTEL MANOR, Shippan Point, Stamford, Conn. 



D. L. & W. H. WOOD 



Proprietors 



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T02 



TOURIST RESORTS. 



WHITE PALACE HOTEL, MIAMI, FLA. 



RATES: 
$2.00 to $4.00 Per Day 

American Plan 

SPECIAL BY THE WEEK 




CAPACITY. 300 



Caters to peop e who appreciate a str.ctly first-class cuisine, comfortable, up-to-date rooms at popular 
prices, with unhnmed entertainment gratis, and offc-rs attractions to tourists that are more satisfactory 
than those uflered by any other resort in America, such as baths, rcc-ding-rooms with leading local. State 
.nd Northern daily papers, leading weeklies and monthly magazines, pool and billiard tables, bowling 
alley, charmmg automobile rides, delightful excursions by boat and fishing trips, transportation to and 
from trams, and charming music, for ALL of which there is no charge. Other attractions are a new 
stately, modern, up-to-date, fireproof hotel structure, built of Miami rock-a veritable white palace 
Private telephones in each room, and most of the rooms with private bath. Barber shop and ladies' 
ha.rdressing and manicuring parlors, public stenographer, telegraph office, spacious verandas for 
promenading or dming out of doors. The ballroom is one of the largest and finest in America 
Dancing every evening except Sunday, and invitation ball Saturday evenings. 

Write for circular giving full information or ^>^ Al Mr. Foster. 





There is Only One 
PALM BEACH 



ROYAL PARK ADDITION to 

Palm Beach offers a rare opportunity 
to secure building sites on either Lake 
Worth or Atlantic Ocean adjacent to the 

Greatest Winter ^ Resort 
in the World :: :: :: 



SEE PLATE 

WRITE OR CALL ON 

Palm Beach Improvement Co. 

G. W. JONAS, Sec. 

West Palm Beach - - Florida 

OR 

^sK. Mr. Foster 



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TOURIST RESORTS. 



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lampa the lown lo lie lo 

^ Destined to become in a few years the most important Port 
en the Gulf Coast. 

^ Would y^ou invest your money where it will be ahsoluieh) 
safe ? Then write us at once. We make a specialty of first 
mortgage loans on improved CitX) property netting from 6% 
to 8% interest payable semi-annually. Absolutely safe. 

^ We also sell City, Suburban and County property, Realty 
values are increasing and opportunities for safe and profitable 
investments were never better. Correspondence solicited. 

BECKWITH & WARREN 

Box 96 - - - - TAMPA, FLORIDA 

REFERENCES 

First National Bank of Tampa 
Commercial agencies and any one of our satisfied clients from Maine to California 



I THE TAMPA TIMES I 



I DAILY and WEEKLY % 



^ The Pioneer and Leading Paper of the j{ 

}C Best City in the Best State in the Union. S 

I Associated Press Reports and complete special J 

service. Thoroughly covers the Tampa territory. 



% 

Daily, $5 per year; Weekly, $1 per year — jf 

payable in advance. jj 

Advertising rates consistent with service. J 



St 

i D. B. McKAY - Editor and Manager | 



f Office : Times Block, corner Washington and Franklin Sts. ^ 

i TAMPA .... FLORIDA | 

t» St 

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104 



THE STANDARD GUIDE. 



Travelers' Checks 

Bankers' Money Orders 

Letters of Credit 

Domestic and Foreign Exchange bought and sold at current 
rates. Telegraph and cable transfers. A general banking busi- 
ness transacted. Interest allowed on special or time deposits. 



CAPITAL - - - $250,000.00 
SURPLUS - - - 100,000.00 
RESOURCES - - 1,500,000.00 

EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK 

Tampa - - - - Florida 



Some of the Reasons Why the Tampa Tribune is the Dominant 
Factor in Southern Florida Journalism 






One of the Only Two Florida Newspapers Ever Granted Newspaperdom's " Winning Daily " 
Emblem— Only Tampa Newspaper of Known Circulation 



(From New York Newspaperdom, Nov. 11, 1909). 
Editor's Note. — A "Winning Daily" means a complete and comprehensive newspaper that 
has achieved unusual success through merit; a paper of the very highest character; that is fair 
ill its policy and deals openly and independently wiih the public. Besides this, the "\Vinning 
Daily" is the paper which enters the homes and finds most favor there; which possesses 
quality through and through; a newspaper which has been thoroughly endorsed by advertisers 
m letters to Newspaperdom; which carries the largest volume of the best class of advertising 
and never swerves from its established rates; which, in short, is clean, dignified, progressive 
and absolutely free from the yellow taint — these are the attributes of the newspapers granted 
Newspaperdom's "Winning Daily" emblem. 

The Tampa Tribune is Southern Florida's only morning newspaper in what is necessarily a 
morning newspaper field, and enters thousands of homes where no other newspaper is taken, 
its immediate contemporary is an evening newspaper. The Tampa Tribune has a wide circula- 
tion in Southern Florida, because it goes to press sufficiently early to catch the excellent train 
service at its disposal. It is a recognized fact among general advertisers that a morning news- 
paper enjoys every opportunity for wide circulation and reading on the same day of publica- 
tion, whereas the circulation of an evening newspaper is confined mostly to city and short-route 
delivery. In other words, the evening newspaper invariably finds a wide, comprehensive circula- 
tion over extended territory impossible. 

That this fact applies particularly to the Tampa newspaper situation is evidenced by the 
figures of circulation granted the Tampa Tribune by the American Newspaper Directory. It 
cites the circulation of the Tribune as three times larger than that of the afternoon paper. 

Newspaperdom's "Winning Daily" emblem has been granted to but two newspapers out of 
the sixteen dailies published in Florida. The Tampa Tribune has earned and possessed this 
111 nor for some years. 

Manv advertisers have written Newspaperdom in the last several years in relation to the 
advertising values of the Tampa papers. In not a single instance was there dissension of 
ojiinion that the Tampa Tribune was the one all-necessary advertising medium to any adver- 
tiser, and that it produced more definite results than others combined. Some of these ad- 
\crtisers used it exclusively. Others used it more exclusively than the others, and all joined in 
single praise of its Ereneral excellence. 

The S. C. Heckwith .Snecial Agency, with offices in the Tribune Building, New York, and 
til." Tribune Huilding, Chicago, represents the Tampa Tribune in the foreign field. 



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104a 



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THE PONCE DE LEON 
SANITARIUM 

St Petersburg - - - Florida 

A new, modern, high class hotel-sanitarium, 
receiving regular hotel guests, but also provid- 
ing complete sanitarium facilities for those who 
need it. Baths of all kinds, electricity, massage, 
etc. Northern trained nurses and physicians. 



W. H. ADAMS 

DR. WM. LEE SECOR 



Manager 
Physician in Chief 



COMING TO FLORIDA 

Do you desire to locate in the best climate in the world for business, agriculture or a winter home ? 

THEN LEARN ALL ABOUT FLORIDA 

The FLORIDA EAST COAST HOMESEEKER monthly magazine will keep you fully 
informed of the development of this fertile land. 

FLORIDA is old in history, but young in development and teems with opportunities. It is surely the 
present day land of health and opportunity. 

THE F. E. C. HOMESEEKER 

will keep you fully informed of the business, educational, social and outdoor life of this splendid 
state, the Eldorado of the fruit grower, the farmer, the sportsman, the tourist and the health seeker. 

Send 50 cents for yearly subscription to the F. E. C. Homeseeker, St. Augustine, Florida. 



FOR CHARTER 

The Launch Eben Baldwin 

Equipped for a day's trip or a cruise 
Capt. FRED S. ALLEN 



Allen's Dock 



St. Augustine, Florida 



Mrs. Julia Martine 

MANICURE and CHIROPODY 

ELECTRIC MASSAGE 



Over Tibbetts 

Cor. Franklin and 

Lafayette Streets 



Phone 1786 

Tampa, Fla. 



Southern Automobile ®. Garage Co. 



312-514 Washington Street 

Phone 1497 Open all night 



Supplies, Repairs, Storage, Vulcanizinpr. All work guaranteed satisfactory. 
Distributors for Goodyear and Michelin Tires. Jobbers of supplies, etc. 



'*Mifc/?eli" Automobiles 



FRED E. GILBERT 

Pi'oprietor 



R. T. OVERMAN 

Secretary and Treasurer 



STANDARD GUIDB TO CUBA 



A new, complete and thoroughly practical handbook of the Island, 
with map and a Spanish-English manual of conversation. 110 illus- 
trationi. 50 cents. (Cloth, $1.00.) 

Standard Guide to Havana.— forvidlorL'Tt5v°es 

definite and complete information about travel and the ways of living. 
The town's romantic history is concisely told. The manual of English- 
Spanish conversation meets practical requirements. If one shall 
make the Standard Guide a companion in Havana, it will contribute 
to the economy, convenience and pleasure of a visit. 25 cents. (Cloth. 
50 cents.) Sold everywhere. Sent postpaid on receipt of price by 

FOSTER <a REYNOLDS. No. 1 Madison Avenue. NEW YORK 



Standard Guide 

-GnCUBA 




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104b 



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CEBALLOS, CUBA 



HOTEL PLAZA 




M 



ODERN, up-to-date American equipment and appointments; comfortable rootns ; 
good beds (with mattresses); baths; running water; spacious halls and dining 
room ; electric lights ; piazza twelve feet wide around entire structure. Observa- 



tion tower 



AMERICAN "SOLID COMFORTS" 



Table supplied with fruits and vegetables raised on the plantations of The Development 
Company of Cuba. An ice manufacturing and refrigerating plant in connection with 
the hotel enables meats and poultry to be served in the most tlioroughly efficient manner. 
Hotel rates moderate 

THE MOST HEALTHFUL LOCATION AND THE MOST 
DELIGHTFUL WINTER RESORT ON THE ISLAND 



For further particulars address 



HOTEL PLAZA COMPANY, Ceballos, Cuba 



OR 



THE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF CUBA 

43 Exchange Place, New York 



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THE STANDARD GUIDE. 

J. A. MILLER 



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Real Estate 



Nueva Gerona ISLE OF PINES 

OWNER OF THE 

Santa Anna and Cuchilla Alta Estates 



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is three and one-half miles from Nueva 
Gerona, the capital of the Island, and 
fronts on both sides of the Government road. Its lands are particularly 
adapted to the culture of Citrus and other fruits and vegetables. It is 
sub-divided into 20-acre lots, and is occupied by industrious American 
families who are successfully making it the most attractive and desir- 
able colony of the Island. 

tract 
large 

and small tracts. 



CUCHILLA ALTA '"^T" T ff ')""' 

and IS offered for sale m 



Investigation is Invited before Purchasing Elsevirhere 



Special contracts for improvements 
for non-resident owners. 
CORRESPONDENCE SOUCITED 



Large and small, improved and un- 
improved tracts in other parts of the 
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HOTEL INGLATERRA ' 



PRADO AVENUE (s.^„ralL,) 




FACING CENTRAL PARK 



Z^he Leading Hotel of 
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Completely Renovated. 
All rooms with bath. 
French Cuisine. All 
languages spoken. In- 
terpreters meet steamers 
and trains. :: :; :: 



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MARION COUNTY, FLORIDA 

Marion County, Florida, offers opportunities to the enterprising 
that cannot be surpassed anywhere. Florida is noted for the 
productiveness of her lands, and a good share of this reputation 
was made through Marion County, where ten or fifteen acres 
of fertile land means an independent income for life, in a cHm- 
ate that is ideal. There is still plenty of this land for all on 
sale at very reasonable prices. Marion County has good 
roads, good schools, diversified industries, progressive people. 

^ Our new booklet issued by the Board of County Commis- 
sioners of Marion County gives a clear and authoritative review 
of the conditions. This booklet and any other information 
you may wish may be had by writing Mr. S. T. Sistrunk, 
Clerk County Court, Ocala, Florida. 

^yisK. Mr. Foster for the Marion County booklet. 



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Sobrinos de Herrera Steamship Line 




FOR PORTS ON THE NORTH COAST OF CUBA, TO SANTIAGO 
DE CUBA, SANTO DOMINGO AND PORTO RICO 



SAILINGS 



Frequent sailings for Sagua, Caibarien, Nuevitas, Puerto Padre, Gibara, 
Banes, Mayari, Sagua de Tanamo, Baracoa, Guantanamo, Santiago de 
Cuba, Santo Domingo, R. D., San Pedro de Macon's, R. D., Ponce, 
P. R., Mayaguez, P. R. and San Juan de Puerto Rico. 
Finest Steamers, Excellent Accommodations, First Class Cuisine 



General Office, 6 San Pedro 

p. O. Box 215 



HAVANA, CUBA 

Telegraph "Herrera" 



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Lookirvg For Land Ir\ 
The Best Part Of Cuba? 

Our specialty is Camaguey and the 
Western half of Oriente Provinces 

WE ARE ON THE GROUND 

Sugar lands, Fruit lands, Timber lands. Rice lands, 
Cattle ranches, Tracts for Colonization, etc. 

Improved or unimproved land in Colonies at lowest prices 

STREET ^ STRICKLAND 

REAL ESTATE BROKERS 

Ignacio Sanchez 8 :: Camaguey, Cuba 



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The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company 



TTHIS Company, which for over fifty years has maintained the mail service 
"^ between England and the West Indies, has recently extended its service to 
New York. The route is one giving tourists an opportunity of visiting many 
places of interest in the West Indies and on the Spanish Main. 



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Steamers of 8,000 tons sail regularly from New York to 

JAMAICA, COLON, SA VANILLA, LA GUAIRA, 
TRINIDAD, BARBADOS, CHERBOURG 
AND SOUTHAMPTON 

At Barbados connection is made by the R. M. S. P. Co.'s Intercolonial 
steamer to St. Vincent, Grenada and Demerara ; also to St. Lucia, Dominica, 
Montserrat, Antigua, St. Kitts, etc. 

Through tickets from Havana to West India ports. 

Information as to sailings and descriotive pamphlet of Winter Tours in 
the Tropics can be obtained from Mr. Foster or 

THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY 

Head Office, 18 Moorgate Street, London 

BARBADOS TRINIDAD ST. THOMAS COLON 

Agents in Havana, Cuba: DUSSAQ & CO. 

General Agents for United States and Canada: 
SANDERSON & SON, - - 22 State Street, NEW YORK 

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THE PALM BEACH 
DAILY NEWS 

The thousands of people who spend at least a part of each winter 
season at Palm Beach, Florida, are all people of wealth, whose for- 
tunes are based upon the market prices of stocks, bonds and securi- 
ties, which prices fluctuate with the trend of current events through- 
out the world. It is absolutely necessary that these people receive 
the market quotations and gossip, together with the news of the entire 
world as promptly while in Florida as they do at their homes in the 
North or elsewhere. 

The Palm Beach Daily News meets this requirement of Florida 
visitors. With a special wire to New York and the United Press tele- 
graphic service this daily paper gives the world's news 48 hours be- 
fore the New York newspapers arrive, and 12 hours before any other 
daily. 

The Palm Beach Daily News employs a large and efficient staff, 
which reports thoroughly all the happenings of the Florida East Coast 
during the winter tourist season. 

These are the reasons for the large and high class circulation of 
the Palm Beach Daily News. 

As an advertising medium the Palm Beach Daily News occupies a 
unique position because of the quality of its circulation. To merchants 
seeking the trade of wealthy people and to Northern and Eastern 
hotels the Palm Beach Daily News offers an unequalled opportunity 
for presenting their propositions to the class of people best able and 
most likely to respond. 

For sample copies and advertising rates address 

R. O. DA VIES PUBLISHING CO. 

( PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS 
Publishers ^' PALM BEACH WEEKLY NEWS 

( PALM BEACH LIFE (Illustrated Weekly Society Magazine) 

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA 

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FOSTER & REYNOLDS 
Metropolitan Building - - No. 1 Madison Ave., N. Y. City 

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TOURIST ROUTES. 




Thi is Acwr 

The American Mediterranean 

Above is shown the country of " AGWI " — a name given it from the Atlantic, Gulf 
and West Indies Steamship Lines which connect every important port in the American 
Mediterranean with the important Atlantic and Gulf ports of the United States. 
This region, for all the year round Tours, possesses the charms of Spain, France, Egypt, 
Italy and Capri, is nearer heme, and the trip will cost less. 



PIVnF I INF FLORIDA (Jacksonville and East Coast 
\^1- 1 UIL, J-ll^lIl. jgg^rts, St. John's River); THE CARO- 
LINAS and GEORGIA (through Charleston. S. C); SAN DO- 
MINGO (cruises to and around the island). 



MALLORY LINE 



TEXAS (Galveston, San An- 
tonio, Brownsville, El Paso); 
ARIZONA (Grand Canyon); NEW MEXICO, CALIFORNIA and 
PACIFIC COAST; FLORIDA (via Key West for Miami and Palm 
Beach; via Tampa for St. Petersburg, Sarasota and Gulf Coast Points); 
MOBILE (for New Orleans). 



PORTO RICO LINE 



PORTO RICO (San Juan, 
Ponce, Mayaguez), Uncle 
Sam's new West Indian possession, cruises to and around the island. 



WARD LINE 



CUBA (Havana, Santiago, Cienfuegos, 
etc.); BAHAMAS (Nassau); MEXICO 
(Vera Cruz and Tampico, connections for Mexico City and all interior 
points); YUCATAN, the Egypt of America (Progreso, connections for 
Merida and the celebrated Mayan Ruins). 



CIRCLE TOURS BY R.ML AND WATER from and back to 

your home city with liberal stop-over privileges. 



I WRITE OUR TOUR 
BUREAU- WE WILL 
PLAN YOUR TRIP 

Tell us how many are in your 
party, and the length of time 
and the amount of money you 
contemplate spending. We 
will gladly propose a few trips 
for your consideration by both 
rail and water, giving you com- 
plete itineraries, including cost 
of tickets, meals and berths, 
what you can see, length of 
trips, folder and copies of the 
AGWI News. Address any 
of the following AGWI Tour 
Bureau Offices, 192 Washing- 
ton St., Boston, Mass.; 203 
S.Clark St., Chicago, 111.; 701 
Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 
Pa.; 290 Broadway, New 
York; 122 West Bay St., 
i Jacksonville, Fla. 



CLYDE LINE 

Pier 36, North River 

New York 



MALLORY LINE 

Pier 36, North River 

New York 



PORTO RICO UNE 

12 Broadway 

New York 



WARD UNE 

Pier 14, East River 
New York 



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GLEN SPRINGS 

Watkins Glen on Seneca Lake, New York 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR 



PEKt^ tCTLY appointed Hotel. Accommodations, service and cuisine of 
the highest class. In the Heart of The Lake Country, on "The Scenic 
Tour " and " The Iroquois and Abenaki Trail." 

THE AMERICAN NAUHEIM 

Medicinal Mineral Springs, of unsurpassed value for Rheumatism, Gout, 
Diabetes. Digestive Disorders, Anaemia and Diseases of the Nervous System, 
Heart and Kidney. The latest and most complete equipment for administer- 
ing Electric Light Treatments. ( Radio-Therapy ) Mechanical Vibratory Stim- 
ulation and Zander Exercises (Mechanical-Therapy) and the High Frequency 
Electricity. 

THE NAUHEIM BATHS=— 

(Our Nauheim Spring is a stronger lodo-Bromated Brine, than that of Bad 
Nauheim.) For Weakness and Disorders of the Heart and Circulation, Short- 
ness of Breath and High Blood Pressure. 

Location overlooking thirty miles of Seneca Lak.e. Golf Linl^s, 
'tennis Courts, T^iding, Thriving, (footing, jiutomobiling. 

For illustrated booklet and further information address, 
WM. E. LEFFINGWELL, President - - - - Watkins. N. Y. 

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"PINARD COTTAGES," Newport, R. I. 

One of the above very desirable and fully furnished cottages 

to rent v/ith or without board for the ensuing season 

CAZEAU PINARD. New York Office - 44 East 65th Street 




* FRENCH LICK SPRINGS is an all year round resort. The attractions do not end with the Hotel. 
The thousand acres of natural park, walks, drives, golf and other outdoor amusements are charming 
any season. The Springs are sheltered from the winds of winter and the water is same tempera- 
ture the year round. The winter months are becoming very popular, and a stay of two or four 
weeks will work wonders, being free from the enervating effects of a more southern climate. The 
waters are unsurpassed in the treatment of stomach, liver, bowel and kidney diseases. The Hotel 
PLUTO is modern in every respect, affording accommodations for 700 guests, with all the comforts of 
home. The sleeping apartments are all outside rooms. Beautiful booklet free on request. 

FRENCH LICK SPRINGS HOTEL, thos. taggart. Pres. French Lick, Ind. 

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CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL 



AMERICAN OR EUROPEAN PLAN 




Combines warm hospitality with cool, refreshing lake breezes A\\ay from the dust and 
noise of the city, yet only 10 minutes ride by express trains from the theatre, shopping 
and business district. It is delightfully situated close to the famous golf links, lagoons 
and other attractions of South Park System. Has 450 large, airy, outside rooms and 250 
private baths. Its beautiful lawns, shrubs, flower beds, tennis courts and nearby sandy 
beach add to the enjoyment of its guests. A broad veranda of nearly 1000 feet on two 
sides overlooking Lake Michigan. Table always the best. One can enjoy all the summer 
gaieties or find restful quiet in many cool, secluded nooks. Tourists and transient guests 
have every attention. Handsomely illustrated booklet free on request to 
RICHARD M. GRAY, Manager, 51st Blvd. & Lake Shore, Chicago, 111. 



DO YOU WANT A GUN 

of Superior Workmanship, Materials, Wearing and Shooting qualities, and 
general excellence ? If so, write for the PARKER catalogue before buying. 




PARKER BROS, 

The Oldesi Gun Builders in America. 



Meriden, Conn. 

N. Y. Salesrooms: 32 WARREN STREET 



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THE it 'emington . idea 

"solid-breech hammerless safe^^ 

Remington guns leads the world In modern thought. 

The Remington Autoloading Shot Gun and Rifle load themselves by recoil. Your trigger 
finger does all the work. 

The Remington Pump Gun sets up a new standard for this popular type. Like the Autoloading 
Gun and Rifle, it is Solid-Breech Hammerless and in addition ejects the shells at the bottom. 

To get a gun or rifle up to the Remington standard, you must buy a Remington. 
het us send ^ou catalog and literature 

THE REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY - - - Ilion, N. Y. 

Agency 315 Broadway New York City 



UMC 



BIG GAME 
CARTRIDGES 



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Y\0 you know that if ^our rifle could speak it would ask for 
UMC Cartridges to shoot.'' You humor every rifle whim 
and indulge every rifle desire when you give a magazineful of 
dependable UMC Cartridges to that old favorite of yours. 
f JlV/ir^ Cartridges more than merely fit the cartridge cham- 
her — they fit the personality of your rifle — make 
it shoot better. That's the business of ihe UMC Cartridge 
specialists who do nothing but manufacture and test cartridges 
for rifles of every make. 

Shoot UMC Cartridges in Remington and 
all other rifles. 

THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO., Bridgeport, Conn. 
Agency : 315 Broadway, New York City 




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Steel Lined 

SHOT 
SHELLS 

Steel Lining Around the Smokeless Powder 
Doesn't that protection appeal to you? 

Put it this way — if unlined and Steel Lined Shells were offered you gratis 

wouldn't you take Steel Lined every time ? 

At your dealer's wouldn't you gladly pay more for U M C Steel Lined 

Shells than for the unlined makes ? Yet he will ask you no more. 

That's because there is no extra charge for the Steel Lining which keeps out 

the dampness and is put there free for your protection. 

Insist upon UMC Steel Lined Shells, and if your dealer won't supply 

you, write us. 

Hunt with UMC Game Laws and 
Guide Directory in your pocket 

THE UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE COMPANY 
Bridgeport. Conn., U. S. A. 

Agency, 
S 315 Broadway, 
New York City 




AUTOLOADING 
SHOTGUN 

The Twentieth Centur y 
Wildfowl Gun 



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range shots ; watch his trigger finger do all the work ; watch 
him hill the cripples with his 3 extra shots ; see how his face 
is protected by the thick solid steel breech ; and he will tell 
you thi.t there is little recoil to pound his shoulder. 

You, too, will want this modern duck gun which loads 
itself. You can afford one, the price is so moderate. 
Let us send you catalogue, literature, and "What the 
hunters say." 



// your dealer will not supply you, write us and we will 

see that ^ou are supplied without delay or extra charge 

THE REMINGTON ARMS COMPANY, Ilion, N. Y., U.S.A. Agency, 315 Broadway. New York City 



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TOURIST RESORTS. * 



OAK HALL - 



:TRYON; 



SOUTH CAROLINA 

Is one of the Best Equipped Hotels in the South 







Private and Public Baths, Gas, Electric Bells, Steam Heat and Sun 
Parlor. No place more healthy or desirable as a resting place between 
Florida and the North. :: :: For further information apply to 



E. BROWNLEE 



Proprietor 



TRYON, NORTH CAROUNA or MELROSE HIGHLANDS. MASSACHUSETTS 




THE 

OFFICIAL AUTOMOBILE 
BLUE BOOK 

America's Only Authentic and Univer- 
sally Recognized Road Directories 

These volumes, covering territory as noted 
on reproduced covers shown here, give all the 
best and most popular routes in this vast terri- 
tory, with full running directions, maps, best 
hotels and garages. 

The Official Automobile 
Blue Book 

Is as necessary to the touring automobilist as 
is the steering gear on his machine — in fact, 
it is theoretically part of the steering gear. 

Bound in Leather $2.50 Per Volume 

Express Prepaid 

The Official Automobile 
Blue Book 

239 West 39th St. - - NEW YORK 



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TOURIST RRSORTS. 

— SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS — 

39th and Chestnut Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 

T^HE aim of the Religious of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus is to give to the 

J. children under their care an education which will train both character and mind. 
^ The course of instruction comprises all the usual branches of a sound English education, 
in which Latin, French, Science, Mathematics and Drawing are included. Good taste in 
reading is made a special subject of care in the higher forms, and each class is provided with 
its ovvn library. Preparation for Foreign Travel is a feature of the last year's work. 
Christian Doctrine is taught daily in all the Forms. 

^ Situated in one of the prettiest parts of West Philadelphia, the School should prove most 
attractive to parents who are desirous that their children should be educated in an atmosphere 
of refinement and culture. For further particulars, address MOTHER SUPERIOR. 



^yl^^K Mr. Foster 

About the beautiful winter home 
sites, and the orange, grapefruit and 
pineapple lands at Santa Maria. 

Quickly reached by rail or auto. Western Railway and new Govern- 
ment macadam road cross the property. Moderate prices. 



THE CLIFTON HOTEL 



SHOWING EAST WING) 



NIAGARA FALLS, 
CANADA 




OPEN THE YEAR ROUND 

Fulfils every requirement in a modern, up-to-date hostelry. Large airy rooms, single or en suite, 
with or without bath. One may sit on the spacious piazza in pleasant weather for hours and enjoy 
an uninterrupted view of the entire Falls of Niagara. Rates, from $4.00 per day up. Am. Plan. 

Write for Illustrated Booklet, containing views of the Falls, post free, to 

G. R. MAJOR, Manager, or ask MR. FOSTER at his offices. 



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Ten Acres in South Tampa, 

in the near-in suburbs of the rapidly growing city of Tampa, 
will make you independent ! The greatest of all Florida Col- 
onies, with the greatest future. Price now, $40.00 an acre. 
Terms, $ 1 .00 an acre cash and $ 1 .00 an acre a month until 
paid for, without interest or taxes. 



OWNED BY 



TAMPA BAY LAND COMPANY 



Tampa 



Florida 



Do you want a Florida orange grove, Florida winter home, good S% 
city mortgages, good investment? 

THE JACKSONVILLE DEVELOPMENT CO. 

Main Offices: Jacksonville, Fla. 

Largest handlers of Real Estate in all its branches in the South. Refer to any bank. 



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Florida 



The cover design of the Standard Guide 
is a photo reproduction of Coquina, the 
shell-stone peculiar to the East Coast 
of Florida, and very extensively used 
for building purposes. Fort Marion, 
The Gateway and the Sea Wall of 
St. Augustine are built of Coquina. 



EARMAN HOUSE west Palm Beach, norida 



Twenty-five Rooms. All Modern Conveniences. 
Four Broad Verandas in full view of Lake Worth. 
Fine Surf Bathing, Suits Furnished. :: :: :: 



RATES: 



$10 to $15 Per Week 
$2 and $2.50 Per Day 



MISSES BLOW & POLLOCK 



When your Clothes are Spotted or Unpressed, send them to us. Ladies' and 
Tourists' Work a Specialty. :: :: Work called for and delivered promptly. 

FRENCH DRY CLEANING COMPANY 

Cor. Lafayette & Water Sts. phone 794 Tampa, Florida 

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TOURIST RESORTS. 



PLAZA HOTEL 



HAVANA 



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CUBA 

Central Park, East; 

Monserrate, Neptuno 

and Zulueta Sts. 




Modern fire-proof structure, 
detached and unobstructed. 

European Plan. 

Cosmopolitan Service. 



MJiillitfiHia 



Cable Address: 

LALEAL," HAVANA 



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FLORIDA GAZETTEER 

^AND =- 

BUSINESS DIRECTORY 

Published Biennially by 

R. L. POLK & COMPANY 

Containing an alphabetical list of Cities, Towns, Villages and Settlements of Florida, 
with a sketch of each place. An alphabetical list of classifications of the various 
trades and professions followed in the State. Every line of trade is represented in 
these classifications, and all the persons doing business in each particular line through- 
out Florida are arranged alphabetically according to towns. A valuable publication 
to any business house. Subscription Price, $6.00. Address 

R. L. POLK & COMPANY 

Detroit, Mich. Columbus, Ohio Jacksonville, Fla. I 

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PINE FOREST INN 

OPEN DECEMBER 1, 1909 

WINTER RESORT :: SUMMER VILLE, S. C. 



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IGH class Hotel, stnctly in the Pines, catering to a select 
clientele. Rooms en suite with bath; Elevator, Elec- 
tric Lights, Steam Heat and Open Fireplaces. Pure 
water from our own Artesian well, one thousand feet deep, and 
perfect sanitary conditions. Fine Golf Links, which have re- 
cently been very much enlarged and beautified and second to 
none in the country. Saddle and Harness Horses, fine Hunt- 
ing, Boulevard for Automobiles to Charleston, about thirty 
miles. Address 

MANAGER, PINE FOREST INN, SummerviUe, S. C, 

or F. W. WAGNER & CO., Charleston, S. C. 




AIKEN, S. C. 



The Ideal Health and Pleasure 
Resort :: :: Mild Climate. 

THE MAGNOLIA INN 

A Modem Family Hole!, atualed in the prettiest 
section of Ailcen, and only a short distance from 
ihe Rciilway Station, Post Office, Telegraph 
Office and the Churches of the city. 

HENRY BUSCH - - - Proprietor 



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PALMETTO INN, 

TS situated on high ground with full southern exposure, and overlooks pine clad 
hills on the West and South. It is only a few minutes* WcJk from Eustis Park 
and the Post Office, The living-rooms and bedrooms are large and sunny, with 
open fires. Hot-water heating, through the halls, bathrooms, and some of the bed- 
rooms. Several private bathrooms have been added recently. 
For terms address MISS ESTEY 

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Mudlavia Moor-Mud Baths 




Located near Attica, Indiana, Junction or ttie Vv abash and Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroads, 
in the picturesque heart of the Hoosier Hills, Mudlavia has achieved national fame as the Ideal 
Health, Plectsure and Rest Resort. The combination treatment here given for all forms of Rheuma- 
tism, Gout and all diseases of Liver, Stomach, Bladder, Kidneys, Blood and Nerves, consists of 
Mudlavia Moor-Mud Baths, Lithia Water Drinking and Bathing, and Sulpho-Saline 
Hydrotherapy. The mud and combination of springs are absolutely peculiar to this beautiful spot. 
Every auxiliary appliance to restoration of health and renewzJ of vitality is to be found here. Finest 
bath house in America, first-class modern steam-heated, electric-lighted hotel, metropolitan cuisine, 
and everything strictly correct. Mudlavia is the one perfect place for quiet, restful recup>eration from 
the results of over-strenuous social or business life. Write for beautifully illustrated literature. Address, 

R. B. KRAMER, Gen. Man., MUDLAVIA, Kramer, Indiana. 



A hotel of refinement and 
quiet comfort " 




Hotel Gttbicott) 

t/A FAVOURITE HEW YORK MOItU C/ 

COLUMBUS AVE.8lj T&82° STS. 

JAMES W. GREtNt.MOR- 



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DEAD Saor SMOSMJSSS 



TRADE MARK. 




^^The shots that hit are the shots that count/' 

The powder is as important as the gun. "Dead Shot" 
is the be^ there is, — hard hitting, but with light recoil. 

Man is the variable quantity. The lability of Dead 
Shot Smokeless Powder is guaranteed. So with it in your 
shells you'll get a higher average always — everywhere. 

P Convince yourself by a trial. We will send you 

£^TOJD(^T booklet on proper loads, if you wish, and will refer 

T f you to a dealer near you, who carries Dead Shot, if 

J^OadS ^of ^^y reason your regular dealer does not. 

AMERICAN POWDER MILLS 



Chicago, 111. 



Boston, Mass. 



St. Louis, Mo. 



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Shotguns, Rifles and Revolvers 

E. 1. DU PONT DE NEMOURS POWDER CO. 

Established 1802 Wilmington. Del.. U. S. A. 






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